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    "id": 831147,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/831147/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Edith Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me time to contribute to this important Bill. I note that the warehouse receipt system will enable farmers to deposit goods, usually grains or coffee, in exchange for warehouse receipts. A warehouse receipt is a document issued by warehouse operators as evidence that specific commodities of stated quantity and quality have been deposited with them. This kind of system has some advantages and one of them is storage. Some farmers may not have proper storage facilities. Another advantage is improved prices. The goods are stored as the warehouse keepers look for improved prices in the market. There is also an advantage of value addition to the commodities. For example, in my county, farmers planted a lot of green grams last season which were issued by the county government which thought that this would improve the economy of the county. The prices were very low after the harvest and this discouraged the farmers even thought they had harvested in plenty. If there was such a system, the farmers would have stored the green grams as they wait for the prices to improve. Since such arrangements were not there, they sold at a throwaway price of Kshs30 per kilogramme to brokers. This has really discouraged the farmers. As I speak, farmers have also harvested a lot of pigeon peas or nzuu . Kitui is known as a very dry area. When farmers harvest, they look forward to solving their economic problems, but it gets very discouraging when a kilo of nzuu is going for only Kshs15, which is very low."
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