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    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to support the Motion by Hon. Waluke on Measures to Bridge Trade Deficit. This is something that has been a challenge in our country. I urge that the House resolves that the Government urgently puts in place measures to bridge the huge trade deficit by providing incentives to potential investors and farmers, livestock and fish farmers, supporting local production through promotion and protection of local industries and implementing competitive export promotion strategies. When you go to Eldoret International Airport, you see huge cargo planes landing from Dubai, Malaysia and other areas bringing in cargo. However, when those aircraft leave Eldoret International Airport, they do not leave with any cargo and yet you find that farmers from the North Rift, flower farmers and horticultural farmers, bring their commodities all the way from as far as Kitale and Endebess to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The reason is that there is no cold room at Eldoret International Airport and storage facility for these goods. This is something that the Government has to seriously think about and look at ways of how we can enhance and provide incentives to these farmers. The other day, the Head of State, President Uhuru Kenyatta, opened the Rift Valley Textile (RIVATEX) Factory but do we have the capacity of producing enough cotton to feed the factory? That is where there is a challenge because this country refused to innovate and take scientific evidence on use of Biotechnology (BT) cotton. That is what other countries use. They even use Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) maize. I want to educate my neighbour, Hon. Ferdinand, that the dollars which he carries The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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