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    "id": 947787,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947787/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Adan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13418,
        "legal_name": "Adan Hajj Ali",
        "slug": "adan-haji-ali"
    },
    "content": "Livestock farmers face a myriad of challenges in this country, among them the distance of market places. The board will seek to help bridge the gap between the market and the market place. There is also exploitation of livestock farmers by middlemen, not to mention low prices as a result of often uncontrollable factors of the vagaries of climate change. So, this Bill is timely because it seeks to address the challenges of pastoralist farmers. There is an important role played by the livestock sector in the ASAL. Among the pastoralists, it provides meat and milk products. It also contributes immensely to the Big 4 Agenda. I see agitation by Members from other agricultural sectors. Agriculture, as a sector, is dead. Livestock farmers have been feeling the wrath of lack of attention by the Government. Now, other sectors of agriculture are also ailing. Tea farmers are in problems; the coffee sector is dead; the pyrethrum sector is dead; the sugar sector is ailing; the cotton industry is kaput ; you know the perennial issue we have with maize; rice is also a problem; and the dairy products sector is also ailing. We need serious intervention by the State to help the agricultural sector come back to where it used to be. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we see agitation by individual sectors. All these boards were collapsed into what is now called the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA). The Committee is seized of two Bills: The Sugar Board Bill and the Tea Board Bill."
}