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    "id": 942358,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/942358/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 151,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
        "slug": "benjamin-washiali"
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    "content": "officers, you must be able to tell the number of farmers you have, the kind of crops being developed and what you expect to get after they have done what they need to do. To eliminate quacks, we have had farmers’ organisations like the Kenya Sugar Board. You will find that even to identify who the directors representing farmers are, the farmers must be the ones to be involved in the election of directors. But you find directors who do not know much about farming and, sometimes, they do not even understand the crops they are representing. We have allowed quacks to present themselves as farmers and that is why they also elect quacks to represent farmers when they know nothing about the crops they are representing. The aspect of timely payments to farmers should only be by people who know what those farmers are going through. You remember when we had farmers supplying maize to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), you would find that one farmer was supplying thousands of tonnes. This is a farmer we did not know, but he was presenting himself as one. This was happening just because we have not registered those farmers. When you register farmers, you do it with the size of the land they are tilling. So, registration will eliminate practices where people just come and claim to be farmers and yet they are not. We have a big problem in the farming sector. Right now, we are importing eggs and milk from Uganda and all over. We are eating fish from China just because we cannot tell who can produce tilapia for us today. Central region is one of the places that we have fish. However, because we cannot follow what those farmers are doing, you find some people who pretend to be farmers selling fish here claiming to have got it from their farms when, in the actual sense, they have imported it from China."
}