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    "id": 1088269,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndwiga",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njeru Ndwiga",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, it is proposed in Clause 40 of the Bill, that the Board of the Institute comprise the CEO of CBK; the PS of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries; PS for National Treasury; the Secretary to the Science Commission appointed under paragraph six of the Second Schedule of the Science and Technology Act; one person representing coffee growers; one person nominated by the Commission for University Education (CUE) representing universities and the CEO of the Board. Madam Deputy Speaker, Clause 43 of the Bill provides that the Institute shall among other things, prioritise areas for and coordinate research including research in coffee diseases; develop appropriate systems to promote balanced, diversified and sustained coffee development and to optimise coffee production through adaptive and investigative research; disseminate in collaboration with the Board and other research organisations established under the Kenya Agricultural Research Organisation Act and other organisations. Madam Deputy Speaker, this is why I said I do not want to overemphasize the importance of extension services because in the past, such research findings were done but farmers never benefitted. There was no institution or organisation that would disseminate this information to farmers. However, this Bill establishes functions of the county governments. The county governments are meant to make sure that we have extension services who will disseminate this information to farmers."
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