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    "id": 1157606,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "the factories to do research. They can assist farmers on how to improve their yields. They can also do research on various insects that invade crops and cause poor yields. As a lecturer, I was teaching at JKUAT. It is very good when it comes to issues of food, agriculture and nutrition. They take it as a priority. Collaboration with such universities will be a boon to the sugar industry as sugar factories will have students being attached there, especially Masters’ and PhD students who are supposed to do an indepth analysis concerning this sector. As I said, they can do research on quality seeds that can lead to high returns or yields. We must arrest a situation where Kenya is importing sugar. We should not continue importing sugar when we have the human capital and land. Human capital is very important. Land is a factor of production. We also we have labour which is readily available. Therefore, there is need for the Government to encouraging sugar farmers in order to improve their farming activities. The Government needs to ensure that it revives the sugar industry by sending enough resource to counties. This is the only way we can ensure sugar industry is revived. There is need for county executives to ensure in their yearly budget, they factor in agriculture issues so as to enrich our sugar factories. They should also be accountable to the Senate. They should say what they are doing about agriculture because it is one of the Big Four Agenda. As a country, we are talking about food security. However, we cannot talk about food security if we are not protecting, facilitating and helping our farmers. It is our onus as a Government to ensure that there is subsidized fertilizer for sugar cane farming. There should be subsidized prices for the seedlings. Subsidized fertilizer should not be for sugar only; it should also be for maize and other major crops that are grown in this country. We have a duty as Senate to ensure that we are supporting our farmers because Senate is about devolution and farming is highly devolved. I support this Bill and I hope that it will see the light at the end of the tunnel because Kenya is an agricultural country, so that we stand out when it comes to agriculture. I thank you."
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