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    "id": 1157607,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1157607/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. This Bill is timely. It was first published in 2019 and passed on 11th November, 2021 in the National Assembly and that is why it is here. Something needs to be done. I will speak generally first about the agricultural and food sector and then focus on sugar. We are staring at a problem in our country; a problem of a mismanaged agricultural sector. The problem of the mismanaged agricultural sector manifests itself in a number of ways. The first way it manifests itself is that the cost of food going up terribly. Number two, it manifests itself in the fact that our biggest income earner as a country is not agriculture. Our biggest income earner is remittances from Kenyans abroad. We are not producing enough. The third sign of our terribly run agricultural sector is the fact that although Kenyans are busy in agriculture, our levels of poverty have gone up. Agriculture contributes to 56 per cent of our GDP, but produces less than 5 per cent of revenue. That gap alone shows you as an economist that there is a value gap that is missing in this sector because it should be almost half if managed well because a lot of it goes"
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