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    "id": 1159177,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1159177/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker Sir, thank you, for giving me the opportunity. From the outset, I declare that I am supportive of this Bill. Agriculture is the past, present and the future. Without agriculture, we become a sinning nation. Remember in all narratives of creation, God created the earth, meaning soil, water, human beings and the environment. So, it means that God’s gift to us are the raw materials used in Agriculture. As a nation, we have immense untapped potential in terms of agriculture. We have human skill and human resource that should be utilised to engage productively in agriculture. If we do this as a nation, we will be able to use our resources like land, water and population. Our purchasing power in of what has been produced. So, when we are talking about cotton, the young people of today do not even know how the crop looks like. Most young people of today know that what they are wearing is made out of cotton but they have never seen the crop, never cultivated it and they have never been part of that process. In short, cotton died yet we continue wearing apparels or outfits that are made out of cotton. In fact, the world over what is 100 per cent cotton is only second to silk in terms of value. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, cotton is a very valuable crop. It is highly priced in terms of what is produced out of pure cotton. In Migori County where I come from, we used to grow cotton. We also used to grow cotton in Homabay, Siaya, Kisumu, Busia and other counties of Kenya. We no longer do that. We have runaway unemployment and poverty because some of these cash crops that ought to have actively and intensively"
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