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    "id": 831052,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/831052/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "increase productivity, we shall increase money to the farmer. Once the money to the individual farmer is increased, we shall grow the resource base of our people. Warehouse receipting comes with many advantages. It is not only going to enable the national Government to make its statement in investment promotion, but it will also help county governments to implement investment promotion conventions. Different county governments will have an opportunity to say what they can do best based on the experience of how much is contained in their warehouses and the growth potential that is realised in terms of what is produced and what the county is capable of producing. It is, therefore, possible to sell their counties as investment destinations based on the agricultural products they can produce. We can increase the quality of the products because of warehousing. When products are received at the warehouse, first of all, they are checked for cleanliness upon harvesting. Then they are sorted, graded, labeled and packaged for the warehouse storage. It is also possible for us to know that certain grade of a product is available in what warehouse at any one point in time. So, being able to determine the quality of the products is advantageous to us because we can tell the products we have in different parts of the country. Warehouse receipting also gives possibility for a country like Kenya to capture regional potentials. Planning in agriculture sector could be easier if we are clear of regional potentials. The National Cereals and Produce Boards (NCPB) were created basically to even out grain management. The NCPB collects produce from production areas and has outlets in consumer areas. Therefore, you find NCPB stores all over the country but they only cater for grains. In warehouse receipting, we are looking at a wide variety of products. It is therefore possible for us to know the potential we have in different areas. We may also indirectly trigger regional specialisation focus on what to produce by assessing warehouse receipting. In this country, we are not able to tell how much of a product we have from a particular region. When we are not able to tell what we can produce from a region in terms of quality and quantity over time, then it is not possible to advise correctly on investment. So, through warehouse receipting, it is possible for us to know the kind of products we can guide our potential investors to find in a given area so that they can know the kind of processors they need to fit in their investments. Warehouse receipting will also enable us to organise industrialisation. Industrialisation basically focuses on transformation in agricultural production. The European countries, the Americas and the young industrialised countries of the East did agrarian reforms. Through these reforms, they were able to consolidate and determine what to be produced in an area. They were also able to determine the quantities they had at any one point in time. They were, therefore, able to collate investment information on industrialisation in those areas. So, through this warehouse receipting, it is possible for us to organise our industrialisation through promotion of the potential produce from a given area. The use of the warehouse receipt system would also help us to cause investment promotion. Right now, our investment promotion brief as a country does not give the possibility for farmers to produce raw materials for investors. Warehousing, indirectly, can enable Kenyan farming community to declare what they have and the country can promote those areas as possible areas for investment. Warehouse receipting is also a form of security. Farmers can use the warehouse receipt to secure loans from banks and to secure inputs from different outlets."
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