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    "id": 1255151,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, as I wind up, when we speak about the establishment of this service, there is one key component that came up with the 2010 Constitution – devolution. If we shall not devolve these extension officers to the lowest available unit of service such as a ward, location or a village, we shall have missed on the thought and idea here. I enrich the mind of this Mover of this Bill that this service should be express even if it will be a collaboration between the national and the county government. It should be explicit and very direct that these services will be offered at the lowest level – ward, location and village. This is so that we will correct two things. The first is crop production and the second one will be livestock production. These days because of growth of population, our land is shrinking. The land that everybody tills now is not the same as it was 10 or 15 years ago. Therefore, if we do not invest in getting the very best breed of dairy cattle in dairy farming, so that one cow can produce 30 litres of milk instead of keeping 10 heads of cattle, which produce three litres each, so that for the same production, we get one--- This can only be enhanced if we deal with our breed and this shall be informed by advice and services of agricultural extension officers. Madam Temporary Speaker. I would not want to belabour this, but a framework on the funding of the two is and should be very explicit in the Bill. We should know how much the counties shall be doing because this is a devolved function and how much the national Government shall be doing because we also have a Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives at the national level. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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