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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No.2 of 2021 on the National Agricultural Policy, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 8th February 2022. The agricultural sector is a major contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It employs over 80 per cent of Kenya’s rural workforce and provides for more than 15.5 per cent of formal employment. It further contributes to GDP through manufacturing, distribution and services sector and accounts for 69.7 per cent of the total export earnings in 2018. The Kenya Vision 2030 recognises the significance of agriculture towards its goals and aims to achieve an average GDP growth rate of 10 per cent per year up to 2030. The broad objective of this Policy is to improve food and nutrition security and maximise incomes through optimum utilisation of resources in the agricultural sector. In actualising the broad objective, the national Government and county governments will ensure that households and national food and nutrition security are attained through innovative and cost-effective measures linked to the country’s long- term development goals. The goals of the policy are: 1. To transform crop, livestock and fisheries production into commercially oriented enterprises that ensures sustainable food and nutrition security. We know very well that this is important for us and especially now that Kenyans are going through this drought. We do not have enough food in our country such that we are even forced to buy food from outside. 2. To provide a framework for the support and intensification of co-operation and consultation between the national Government and county governments, among other stakeholders, for enhanced development of crops, livestock and fisheries. The guiding principles of this policy include: 1. Support and strengthening of food, health and nutrition security inter-relationship. 2. Effective and sustainable agriculture development. 3. A market-oriented and modern technology-driven agricultural economy. 4. Promotion of stable public-private partnerships for development of crops, livestock and fisheries sub-sectors. 5. Compliance with international standards in development and growth of crops, livestock and fisheries sub-sectors. 6. Promotion of agricultural ecological zone-guided production with improved capacity to predict and respond to shocks. 7. Provide for economically viable, socially equitable and environmentally suitable use of land for crops, livestock and fisheries. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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