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    "id": 942353,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/942353/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Boss Shollei",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Jepkosgei-boss Shollei",
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    "content": "It will also help us in cases of marketing and promotion of certain crops so that if too many farmers are registered as producers of maize, then we can now call for diversification, with an understanding of what crop or farm produce we have a shortage of in Kenya. Therefore, the need to register farmers is imperative and it is shocking that we have not begun to undertake this after 55 years of Independence. As I second this Motion, I want to close by giving an example of a country like Malawi during the presidency of Mutharika – probably that has changed now –where they moved from a food deficient country to a food sufficient one only because they knew the number of farmers that they had. They had registered their farmers; they knew their number and even their subsidy. The fertilisers and seed subsidies were being delivered directly to farms and/or through the associations that the farmers had formed. In Kenya, they are currently being sold through commercial outlets which, in fact, have been used by cartels to only make money for themselves. With those few remarks, I second the Motion. Thank you."
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