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    "id": 1255254,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1255254/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
        "slug": "enoch-kiio-wambua"
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    "content": "Mung beans is listed as having the highest nutritional content compared to even the common beans we consume in this country. With a properly regulated mung beans industry, the import of this Bill is to ensure that both the national and county governments buy and package for use, mung beans in the school feeding programmes and for our military as well. That alone will enable us do a number of things. Firstly, it will stabilize the market prices for the beans. Secondly, it will create many employment opportunities in the process of value addition for packaging of these beans for feeding programmes. That way, it will ensure handsome returns for farmers for their sweat on their farms. It will also boost the health of our children in schools and our military in the barracks and stations. Another object of this Bill is to facilitate introduction of mung beans farming techniques and general modernization of the mung beans industry for cost control and productivity improvement. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am happy to note that even though mung beans have not been listed in the scheduled crops, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) has undertaken extensive research on these beans. Out of that research, a lot of improvement has taken place and new varieties---"
}