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    "id": 1368283,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1368283/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kuria",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Performance and Delivery Management",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Kuria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I appreciate the Question from Sen. Mbugua. Senator, you can expect that the biggest farmer in this country will be the National Youth Service (NYS). They are going to utilise all existing land, including the land in Samburu County, that you have talked about. Tomorrow, we are launching a partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. We will discuss with the Agricultural Development Kenya Seed Corporation how we will lease land from them in areas like Galana-Kulalu. You can expect that NYS will be the next big supplier of food for the local and export market. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are discussing deployment of NYS with county governments. Some counties have already given us land for seed propagation. We want to move from the current system where farmers in counties expect supply of seedlings from Nairobi City. I do not find it acceptable because it is supposed to be the other way around. We have started with Siaya County, where the Governor has offered 70 acres to start a seed propagation farm in Ugenya Constituency for this purpose. We have come from a situation of hunger and food scarcity. In my considered opinion, this need not be the case. We need to have some intervention from Government to complement what our hard-working farmers are doing. It is my commitment to the country that through NYS, we will be able to match one-to-one, the total output of our subsistence and medium sized farmers especially in the North Rift. This is so that we have got a reliable source of food. Within the next two or three years, expect NYS to assist the country by either working alone or through foreign Public Private Partnerships (PPP) to produce food. There has been a lot of interest from foreign investors who want to do agriculture and help the country be self-sufficient in food production and even export surplus food. From my previous assignments, I know they have been looking for a worthy partner to farm together because of local knowledge and situation. The NYS will enter into a partnership with international investors. They will bring in their capital and equipment;"
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