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    "id": 843300,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I realise the work of Ad Hoc Committees is very special. We are the House that speaks for the people. So, if they need a little bit more time to interrogate this matter, then I feel that we should accord them the time. My request to Sen. Cheruiyot is that they should expand their mandate a little bit. When it comes to agricultural products and produce, we need to relook at the whole value chain by empowering our producers, the farmers, to be able to add value to their products. That way, their returns will be higher. I think that in their looking at the challenges, they also need to expand a little further and look at the other methods that they can use to value add their products for them to retain most of its marketability. I have a good example of a coffee farmer in Kiambu who, after so many years of exporting the raw product, has decided to start value adding. He is now drying the coffee beans and grinding and packaging them within his farm and that is the way that Kenyans need to go. Rather than just exporting the raw product, we need to have our own products being packaged right here at our door step and that will then add marketability. If possible, now that they will have extra 60 days that shall be granted, they should look at how farmers can be supported so that they make an extra step. You should also make it more attractive to them because, obviously, they are becoming unattracted to it as a source of livelihood, given all the challenges that you have highlighted. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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