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"content": "Is it not high time we called a spade a spade? I am a camel farmer. Is there anybody with an idea of the available market for a camel farmer in Kenya? There is none. If you go to Ethiopia, there is an established department and market for camel farmers. In Somalia, which has had serious security issues, the market is vibrant. It is the same in Djibouti. Is it not high time we sat down and reflected on our viable attempts to make this country food secure? Is it not time we stopped associating this giant Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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"content": "with coffee only? I am not in any way trying to demean coffee and tea farmers; they are doing a superb job but we need to diversify our economy. We need to rinse the brains of technocrats in that Ministry. I am glad my good friend, Hon. Kagwe, a genius product from that region, is making attempts to reach out to other parts of the Republic of Kenya."
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"content": "This Bill is good and timely. I pray that ego-driven attempts for individual aggrandizement will not derail the Bill. There are people who personalise the big things that we do without thinking about what benefits ordinary people. What we have is not a federal State but economic devolution. You know that Kenya is not a federal State. Counties are supposed to provide linkages. Issues are supposed to trickle down from the national Government to the villages but, everybody wants to create a cocoon outfit that is completely detached from the national reality. It is high time we went back and audited the Constitution because it is not working. It is making this country bankrupt. It has created too many echelons which pursue avenues that only add value to personal benefits. This Bill is good. I agree with what Hon. (Dr) Nyikal has said. Let us not create many overlapping and conflicting…"
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"content": " Thank you. Well said. Hon. Members, today we have a number of schools visiting us. Seated in the Public Gallery are students from Masinga Girls, Masinga Constituency in Machakos County. Seated in the Speaker’s Gallery are students from Moi Girls Isinya, Kajiado East Constituency in Kajiado County. They are all welcome to follow our proceedings this morning."
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"content": "Members, before I give Hon. Emaase a chance to contribute, I would like to give Hon. Mwalyo one minute."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to welcome the students that have come to the premises of Parliament to learn from the proceedings of the House and watch Members contributing to debate. I welcome all of them, the ones from Moi Girls High School, Isinya and the ones from Masinga Girls whom I represent. I welcome them to feel free, watch debate and learn something so that when they go home they can say they were in Parliament today. You are part of the debate. Watch and go home with something. You are most welcome."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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"content": " Member for Teso South."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. The importance of agricultural extension officers cannot be over-emphasised. This Bill is very timely. It is coming at a time when farmers in this country are operating in an environment devoid of the basic knowledge, training and support that was being given by extension officers. Last year, I was working with a Community-Based Organisation (CBO) that I created in my constituency. We were trying to do some work in agribusiness. It was difficult to get extension officers. I had to seek the services of the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO). Sometimes you even need to test the soil so that the farmer is advised on what crop to plant where for them to get the highest yield. Extension officers, as I remember, would even go to the field and offer demonstration services. Today, agriculture is one of the most evolving sectors. It is mechanised. There are new methods and technologies being used all over the world. We need these extension officers. If you look at our counties today, some do not even have extension officers. Those who are there are ageing and almost retiring. They have been phased out through natural attrition and have not been replaced. As we speak about this Bill, we must deliberately, as a House, make sure that enough resources have been allocated. Or we impress upon the counties to make sure they have allocated enough resources to facilitate extension officers and recruit more. Those who have a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "few extension officers have no money for facilitation and no means of transport to access the remotest areas. Most of our farmers are in the remotest areas where even the road network is very poor. This Bill is coming at a time when we need it the most. Extension officers are the ones who organise the workshops, with the administration at our chiefs' areas, to give capacity to farmers. Today, the Government is putting in a lot of money to construct industrial parks. We have one in Busia, almost complete. We needed to have these extension officers on the ground within these areas to educate the farmers, to do advocacy, to encourage them on what plants, like in Busia, to plant palm oil, simsim and groundnuts. We are going to complete the industrial parks, and we shall not have the by- products for value addition to create employment opportunities. We have too many young people who have graduated from the Sigalagala National Polytechnic and all the vocational and national polytechnics from across the country. They are jobless, and yet there is a lot of potential. We must be deliberate on this, and we must support this Bill. We must follow this function with resources. Otherwise, approving this Bill and not giving money to operationalise it will be a cause in vain. Thank you. I support."
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