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    "id": 1250630,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": "Still in the livestock sector, we have seen a lot of production and packaging of semen and also establishment of liquid nitrogen plants that may produce enough semen to distribute across the country. This means that we are trying to improve our dairy herd as a country. Ours is a centre of excellence when it comes to the dairy subsector. We have also moved the technology further into sex semen, where we can produce what we want, whether it is the females or males. Additionally, we have upgraded to the point where we can transplant embryos. The subsector is key. It is also modernised in the sense that we have the best scientists in the country working there. On the other hand, the crop subsector has also improved a lot over the last one year. I do not need to mention the specific improvements, but we have serious deficits in the Budget. The Budget presented to us by the subsector was Ksh104 billion. We were only able to give them Ksh64 billion, which means we have a deficit of Ksh40 billion. This deficit is key in terms of reducing the allocations to the various sectors, functions, and activities within the subsector itself. If you look at that deduction, specific scrutiny on the crop subsector, you will find that the crop will suffer. In terms of recurrent, there is a Ksh20.7 billion deduction and in terms of development it is Ksh16.4 billion. That means the total deduction is Ksh37.16 billion. In the livestock subsector, we also have a huge deduction. We fall short of the Budget by about Ksh4 billion. The total is now Ksh40 billion. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the reason I am emphasising on this is because this is the sector that spins the nation. This is the sector with the key to developing this country very fast. It is the sector where most of the people are anchored, but it has not yet got the right footing. It is the sector which would drive the Bottom Up Economic Agenda of this country. So, we have a deficit; not so much of a surplus. On the other hand, we have serious issues of pending bills. The pending bills in the agricultural sector amount to Ksh16.9 billion. I know that the law states that the pending bills 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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