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    "id": 1257865,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I first want to thank you for the opportunity to give my contribution in relation to the Bill that has been introduced by Sen. Wambua and to congratulate him for thinking about making a legislation that touches on a crop like the mung bean. If you look at the categorization of this crop, it is in the category that does not get the attention like tea, coffee, cotton and pyrethrum. For a long time, these crops have been used to feed the nation and they seem to be delegated not to the first level, but to a different level. They do not seem to be the first degree crops that are given the attention and the kind of resource that one would expect to be invested in. The commitment by the Senator to develop a legislation to support mung beans farmers is highly commendable. We hope that a legislation of this nature will be drafted for other crops in this category. The only concern – I would have wanted the Senator to be here, I see he is still here – is that it is as though the mung bean has been selected within the bean family to gain attention and location that it has found within a specific legislation that regulates the whole environment that is going to deal with this crop. The proposed Bill is comprehensive. It provides a framework for the coordinated implementation of the national policies and strategies on the development and regulation of the mung bean industry. It is also intended to facilitate and develop a framework to regulate and promote the development of mung bean industry in Kenya in order to make it competitive at the international market. I am asking myself whether the Senator would have considered including the different species of beans within the same Mung Bean Bill in which he would have to amend to title of the Mung Beans Bill to make it the Beans Bill, because there are different categories. We have other types of beans like Wairimu and Mwitemania. These are different kind of beans which are also in this country whose farmers have probably suffered the same fate as those of mung bean. The framework proposed in this Bill is comprehensive because it not only touches on the national Government, but it goes down to the county government. This is important because agriculture is a devolved function. It puts some functions upon the Council of Governors (CoG)."
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