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    "id": 1255170,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1255170/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "We have seen the services sector growing at the expense of agriculture. It should not be that way. Even though we are expanding the services sector, we must start seeing the agricultural sector giving rise to value addition. If the agricultural sector will not grow as expected, we need to see industrialization or the manufacturing sector expanding. We want to start seeing fish farmers becoming fish processors and dairy farmers becoming milk processors. This is a very important Bill that will make sure our fish farmers can get extension workers who can teach them about the best feed available, link them with markets and help them look at fish farming not as a hunting and gathering experience but as a commercial enterprise. It is extension workers who will convince our dairy farmers or people who keep cattle, camel, sheep and goats, that it is no longer a symbol of wealth, a tool for dowry and acquisition of wives and replication of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA). It is a commercial enterprise which if well managed can bring wealth, ensure there is good nutrition and grow the economy of this republic. I do hope that when we are looking at the details of the proposals that have been made by Sen. Tabitha Mutinda, at the point of Third Reading, we will ensure the Council of Governors (CoG) and those who have the mandate of running counties have got a clear role in ensuring the regulation, the supervision, financing and funding of the extension workers. Many counties have lost extension workers because they have not been prioritized in the staff establishment and there is no corresponding training. Many of our counties are converting our Farmers Training Colleges (FTC) into universities. When counties convert our FTCs to branches of universities, they make them teach procurement and supply chain management, bachelor of education, Information Technology and other courses. Those courses are not inferior but you cannot kill a farmer or agricultural training college and substitute it with procurement and supply chain management. This is why we are slowly becoming a country of tenderpreneurs because many of our children have been trained in the art craft of supplies and procurement and this is what they are thinking about."
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