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    "id": 831158,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/831158/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Vincent Kemosi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Vincent Kemosi Mogaka",
        "slug": "vincent-kemosi-mogaka"
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    "content": " The purpose of the system is to ease pressure on the farmer. After the farmer has harvested his produce, he or she is not under pressure to sell the produce at a throwaway price. Therefore, warehouse receipt system is ideal because it will regulate the health conditions of the warehouses where the produce will be stored. This is important. The Bill provides for a council to regulate the health conditions of the warehouses. The current position is that we have warehouses which are unregulated. During the probe on the sugar saga, we realised that some warehouses were in very poor conditions. With the council being in place, we will be assured that the warehouses will be regulated and the health conditions will be proper. Secondly, with the system in place, farmers will be assured that their produce will be kept properly. It talks about the quantity and the quality of the commodities to be stored in the warehouse. That, therefore, means that the operator has to take into consideration the fact that proper quantity is taken down and the proper quality is stored. This will go a long way to ensure that the produce or the commodities in the warehouses are insured. The Bill talks about insurance. The operator will take insurance. Therefore, the commodity of the farmer will be insured. The receipt system will also go a long way to benefit the farmers because it will serve as a collateral in which farmers can get short-term loans while waiting to sell their produce. This way, they can expand their farming activities."
}