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    "id": 1053381,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1053381/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kipyegon Ng’eno",
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        "id": 1453,
        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to relook at all those agricultural crops which used to earn our country a lot of money. Look at the sugarcane sector, especially in the Western and Nyanza regions. You cannot find sugar on the shelves in shops. This is despite the fact that 80 per cent of Kenyans use sugar. You are left to wonder why there is no sugar on the shelves. The crop itself does not earn anything for the people who plant it. It is time we sat down as a country and looked at those areas that were earning this country foreign exchange and putting money in the pockets of our population. It is time we sat down as a country and created an agenda that deals with agriculture that will help to revert the earnings that we used to get from agriculture and make our country move forward. We need to relook at many other crops that we have. If we made miraa and macadamia major crops in our country, they could earn us a lot of money. We should bring back pyrethrum of which you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, are a major farmer. Currently, pyrethrum has lost. We no longer see it in our country. If we brought it back, our country will move forward. I support the Bill."
}