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    "id": 1045091,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1045091/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "takes about three months to grow. Within three months, you have a very good source of protein and vitamins. If very well combined in there, everything goes very well. Sometimes you look at the poverty of Kenyan farmers who have so much land, and there are only a few who know how to make very high scale development on their farms and they make a living. However, there are others who sincerely need to be capacity-built. I think this is a group that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., is referring to; people who can just be capacitated. If we have a Bill that can help; that gives powers to the CEC like this Bill does and gives power in terms of legislation to the county assemblies to make this happen, then we will be moving towards a point where, even if it is not going to be used as a cash crop or even if it is going to be used at the level of a subsistence crop, it is still okay. Why should anybody die from hunger while they can actually grow ndengu or some French beans et cetera ? I know that we have a rain-fed agricultural system, where most of the time we rely on rain. Irrigation can be expensive, but the whole idea now of putting these policies and regulations into place is to just ensure that farmers are helped along the line. Madam Temporary Speaker, sometimes back we used to have extension officers within the counties at the various levels even within the districts and they did a lot of work to ensure that farmers are able to grow, produce and sell whatever they came up with in their farms. This is so critical because the rural-urban migration is driven by the fact that many people find that they cannot make the land productive. Therefore, they migrate to town. When they come to town, they find that there no jobs and it becomes a roundabout thing. I will start my analysis of this Bill from the back, from Clause 21, which basically says:- “All directions, orders and authorizations given, or licenses or permits issued, or registrations made by the Authority in relation to mung bean, and"
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