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    "id": 1259517,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "and other institutions or areas falling within respective mandates of implementing homegrown feeding programmes. What we know about mung beans is that they require very limited rainfall. They adapt to very harsh climatic conditions. The county and national governments should collaborate in areas where mung beans are grown and ensure that these beans are introduced to feeding programmes for schools after harvest. For instance, there is a bumper harvest right now. One of the challenges of feeding programmes in schools, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, is lack of sufficient food supplies. It means then that it becomes very expensive for county governments to source these foods from outside the county and bring them to the counties to be put in school feeding programmes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these beans can be harvested twice in a year. Once the beans are harvested, they should be made available to schools to improve the health of our children in schools. It should ensure that our children have access to at least one hot meal in a day. This is achievable if county and national governments collaborate in making mung beans part of the school feeding programme. Nationally, these mung beans are so nutritious that they can be put in the feeding programme for our military. My father was a member of the military. When I was growing up, we lived in the barracks at some point. I saw a lot of canned beans being given to soldiers and military people. These beans can be processed and canned. They could be a very good supplement for our military. This speaks to not just good health, but food security and overall security in the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in implementing the feeding programme under Section One of Clause 6, the Cabinet Secretary responsible for matters agriculture at the national level and the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) responsible for matters agriculture at the county level, shall- (1) ensure that the minimum standards of production, quality and safety of the beans by the growers are maintained.” We do not want to start a feeding programme this year and then the Cabinet Secretaries go to bed and nothing happens then we abandon the process. The crafting of the school feeding programme and other national feeding programmes where the ndegu beans is involved can be planned for a long time to ensure that it is sustainable. As I said, once these beans are grown and there are safeguards in the production of these beans, it is possible that even at minimum rainfall, we are able to harvest enough beans to feed our children in schools and put them in feeding programmes in feeding institutions."
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