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    "id": 940807,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/940807/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute on this very important Motion. One of the things mentioned here is that Kenya needs to get organised into associations following the collapse of agricultural cooperatives. To a great extent, it is true agricultural cooperatives have gone through serious challenges. Once upon a time, they did very well. We are still very good in cooperatives in Kenya compared to the rest of Africa and many parts of the world. Therefore, as much as we may not be doing very well in terms of coffee, the tea sector has amazing organisations and they do value addition and export. Also, farmers make profits despite the challenges. So, although there is an introduction of the Kenya National Farmers’ Federation (KENAFF), I will equate this to Moshav in the Israeli experience where we have Kibbutz, which are village-based cooperatives which do farming and especially with irrigation. In Israel, value addition is done by the Moshav, which is an umbrella federation which is also a cooperative society. They coordinate markets all over the world. Israel is partly a desert, but is one of the biggest producers in the world. So, although we have KENAFF, you still find that private sector initiatives are not better than cooperatives, if cooperatives were to be reorganised in this country."
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