Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 831106,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/831106/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 203,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2197,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
        "slug": "daniel-kitonga-maanzo"
    },
    "content": "We should ensure that, at any one given instance, our farmers know the status of their produce and whether it has been sold. What should we do with the grains that are brought into the country irregularly through our porous borders and ports? We have grains being imported and yet, our own farmers in the Rift Valley have kept their grains in the barns. We want a situation whereby farmers will no longer store food in their farms but take it to a warehouse where it is receipted. It can be sold immediately or later but they should know the value of their grain because it will be useful to them soon or later. Many farmers are unable to pay school fees and yet, they have worked very hard and produced food worth a lot of money. They are suffering. The same is happening to those who are living in areas which do not have enough rainfall. In Makueni, they are also receiving food rations from the Government popularly known as mwolio. We now have a new policy called “Operation Mwolio Out ” through irrigation, so that no one will be given relief food again. In some areas, farmers work very hard to produce food and their sweat is not rewarded. They are suffering as farmers in any other parts of the country from Ukambani, Wajir and North Eastern. They are in the same status. I urge Members to look at this law critically. It should not be a duplicate borrowed from Indian experience to be practised here and then it fails to bear fruits. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
}