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    "id": 981037,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/981037/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think it was prompted by the break that threw me off guard a little bit. So, promotion, grading and packaging before export and providing incentives to processors who add value before export is important. The person who exports processed fish should get better incentives than the person who exports raw fish. Another issue is promoting domestic consumption. Kenya’s fish consumption is lower that the African average. In Kenya, we eat an average of four tonnes of fish per year. In East Africa Community (EAC), it is an average of seven tonnes a year while in Africa, it is 10 tonnes a year. If we increased our domestic consumption of fish, then it can do serious benefit and great wonders to the demand for fish. It will shorten the supply chain, so that from the lake, the fisherman does not have to be at the mercy of an agent, or the woman who picks fish from the fisherman does not have to provide other supplementary services to the fisherman before she gets fish. Finally, it will ensure that Kenyan fish is supplied closer to the retail end. Our fish tend to go to wholesalers who put in warehouses. They are the ones who make lots of money by sending to the retail end. We need to disintermediate and shorten that supply chain to global markets. More fundamentally, we must promote increased production through aquaculture and exploitation over 200 nautical miles of the exclusive economic zones. I want to declare that the future is fish if we harness it properly. If we have the right policies and strategies, fish can be the next big resource that this country can export to other countries."
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