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    "id": 1045969,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saboti, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Luyai",
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        "legal_name": "Caleb Amisi Luyai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to support this Bill. My card has a problem. I think it is still on recess. Thank you for recognising me without my card. I would like to support this Bill by Mheshimiwa Tandaza. At this point and time that we are talking about support to our natural resources and potential as a country, some of the things that we need to look at are crops that are going to benefit our agricultural industry. Bixa is an industrial crop. This Bill has come at the right time to address crops that would have otherwise become extinct. This legislation will help to put focus not only on this crop, but also on other crops that might be extinct and our future generations will fail to see them. So, we need to focus more on other crops. Kenya is an agricultural country and the whole world knows us as an agricultural nation. Our economy is based on agriculture. The more we focus on those crops, the more potential we will have as a nation on the agriculture sector. Apart from becoming an economic crop, there are many benefits that my colleagues have elaborated that emanate from growing that crop like its flowers and its bright and red fruits that are used in occasions like during Valentine. This is a crop that has been recognised in other countries that have favourable climatic conditions for it and they are benefiting from its farming. Therefore, as a nation, we should be at the forefront in promoting the crop because of the advantage we have of having it in our coastal areas. We should not be left behind. We should make sure that the Bill is passed and farmers in the coastal region are given the necessary support that they need. We should identify other areas that can support that crop. Because of lack of laws and support from the Government, those areas have not been able to support that industrial crop. With those few remarks, I support the Bill and hope it will be passed to enable the people of the coastal region to profit from that crop. Thank you."
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