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    "id": 831061,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/831061/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Pamela Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "Pamela Awuor Ochieng",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I appreciate you for being gender sensitive. As mothers, we are keener on food issues than anybody else. I rise to support this Bill and add my voice to that of colleagues who have spoken. I think it is in the common or public domain that Kenyans struggle every year to produce food – all sorts of food ranging from vegetables to cereals to cash crops and so on. The greatest challenge that we have always had as a nation facing farmers is the post-harvest handling of agricultural produce. This Bill as outlined seems to provide a solution so that we are able to handle our produce from the farm once it is ready. Most farmers, especially small-scale ones, would harvest and get worried thereafter because they do not have proper storage for their produce. Most of them end up selling their produce at throwaway prices. If we have a good warehousing system where those farmers are assured of storing those goods in a professionally managed environment, they will have a lighter duty and fewer worries as they look for market for their produce. This will not only solve the issue of food security, but also value that our farmers get from the produce that they have. The concept of warehousing, especially if it spread all over the country, will also facilitate better knowledge and capacity of our farmers. They will be able to own and manage their own produce in a way that will always make sure that they are together and can raise a stronger bargaining power, especially when it comes to the time of disposing those goods to buyers. This will, definitely, raise their financial income. If the receipting of those goods is properly managed and followed up, farmers will have security. For example, I have seen that people who own pieces of land have some letters of allotment, even before they are given title deeds. That still gives them the entitlement to transact business using those documents."
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