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    "id": 942386,
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    "speaker_name": "Masinga, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I stand to support this initiative because, for a long time, farmers have been lone rangers in whatever they do. If co-operatives can be established and have structures to pool together resources, many groups can be attracted to them. What they do is that when they form some shady co-operatives and they are given seeds and fertilisers they sell them to other people. When they are together and there is a structure which has been created and they have signed some contracts with exporters, they will gain a lot and no food will be lost in the fields. They will sell their produce profitably because organisations trust societies and groups that are together as opposed to individuals. As an individual, if I sign a contract to plant French beans and then somebody else offers a higher amount, I can be attracted to the higher amount and abandon the contract I had. Therefore, I support the co-operative arrangement. Lack of this arrangement has killed sugarcane farming. When a different organisation comes in, you sell your cane overnight to that organisation rather than the person that has contracted you. So, to safeguard the investor who has invested money, seed and plant inputs is the way to go. We should form those co-operatives. Therefore, I support this initiative because it will help farmers in my constituency of Masinga, who are very hard working and who plant a lot of vegetables, but they go to waste. Therefore, I support that those co-operatives can be formed. It is a good initiative. I thank Hon. Mutunga for that initiative. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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