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    "id": 1259597,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13598,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Seki Kanar",
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    "content": "our homesteads, it is very important to have a structure and a legislation that will encourage county governments to put their money and efforts to it. This Bill will help county governments to see that a problem of feeding program - as indicated in the Bill - will be solved. I am happy to report to this House that I am working on a Bill called Lunch Bill. It will come under the Ministry of Education. After we implement, approve this Bill and is assented by the President, I am very sure that it will bring some provision when we are coming up with the Lunch Bill. I am sure that it will encourage national and county governments to have full feeding programs in primary schools and Early Childhood Development Education (ECDEs). This Bill will now encourage county and national Governments to help and support farmers get ready markets. It is a platform that we want to encourage because it goes together with Lunch Bill, the Bill that is coming up. We also have the Extension Services Bill that has been sponsored by Sen. Tabitha Mutinda. These are the kind of structures that we are putting to county governments that will encourage agriculture. It will also help the farmers to see the light at the end of the tunnel and be able to see that there is future of agriculture in our lives. The value addition that has been encouraged by this Bill is also a very encouraging tool because county governments will support. The Mover should look at how he can bring up the issue of funding. The Mover of the Bill should recommend that county governments establish funds. I am proposing this idea so that the county governments allocate money in their budgets. In turn, farmers and cooperative societies will be sponsored to acquire fertilisers and pesticides. We should have a clause in the Bill that proposes the establishment of the fund by county governments to support this cash crop. This will encourage more farmers to grow this cash crop. I support this Bill. The sponsor of the Bill should continue with this course. When the Bill is enacted, we will see county governments come up with ideas to support farmers."
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