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    "id": 1104945,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1104945/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 123,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso North, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Oku Kaunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13488,
        "legal_name": "Edward Oku Kaunya",
        "slug": "edward-oku-kaunya"
    },
    "content": "In an effort to revive the cotton industry in Kenya, there were plans to revive cotton ginneries in addition to facilitating cotton farmers. The Malaba/Malakisi Farmers’ Co-operative Society, which draws farmers from Teso North and Teso South constituencies and parts of Bungoma County, in a bid to jumpstart cotton production, managed to install two machines at Malaba/Malakisi Ginnery, which were commissioned on 15th March 2021. It is against this background that I seek a Statement from the Chairperson, Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, to address the following: (i) Could the Chairperson explain the status of BT cotton growing in the country? (ii) How much funds have been allocated for the revival of ginneries and, in particular, the old Katakwa Ginnery in Teso North? (iii) Could the Chairperson explain why the Ministry is yet to distribute the BT cotton seeds to farmers for the 2021 planting season and whether there are plans to ensure that farmers receive these seeds before the end of the planting season? (iv) Could the Chairperson explain measures put in place to ensure that cotton ginneries are revived to promote cotton production in the country? Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
}