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    "id": 821331,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/821331/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to weigh in on a matter that is so critical and important in the maize growing regions. If you go through the journey of a farmer, it is a miserable journey. I must declare my interest; I am a maize growing farmer and the experience that one goes through is very painful, more so, our peasant farmers. From the ground breaking, the farmers struggle to find the machinery which can either be the orthodox machinery of oxen ploughing or the tractor and with escalation of fuel at its peak, the farmer starts with a loss right from the beginning. He builds up expectations and hope and at the end of the day, if he is given the right price by a Government entity in the name of National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), he should make ends meet and balance it out. However, in the process of reaching NCPB, there is frustration after frustration, headache after headache, thus this farmer is lost in his own country and within his own place of aboard. When he has been successful in weeding and nurturing the crop, there are these vagaries of diseases that arise, particularly the necrotizing disease of maize. The Government has taken so long to assist farmers overcome that challenge. Even when a farmer succeeds in overcoming that challenge, we see that they are being embarrassed and frustrated in their journey towards delivering whatever has been harvested to NCPB. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}