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"content": "including your own county. We did public participation and spoke with the people who incorporated their views. We have sat with the executive, cooperatives, small-scale and large-scale farmers, marketers, producers and millers of coffee. This Bill has incorporated the views of all the people. It is a farmer-centric Bill that will ensure that farmers in Kenya will no longer be exploited by people who take advantage because they can get access to markets where the farmers cannot. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Government of the day, led by President William Samoei Ruto. This is because for the first time in the history of this country, they have been able to set the minimum amount of Kshs80. This is an advanced payment that will be used to cushion farmers. Farmers have suffered up to now. However, the Government will be able to address cherry hawking. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for the first time in my County of Nyeri, I have seen coffee consumers and farmers come together with people from China, Korea, America and Germany. They are negotiating and getting super deals about their product. This is only possible because we have made a Bill and the law that we are proposing is going to ensure that when the farmers sell their coffee, they are paid directly without having to go through intermediaries, which has been the case up to now. This Bill, among other Bills that we are bringing from the Committee of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, is meant to ensure that the farmers in this country will never be exploited again. This is an agricultural rich country. I want to thank the Government of President William Samoei Ruto. He is very intentional, that we cannot continue relying on rainfall to farm. Therefore, by using the new model of the Public Private Partnership (PPP), we are going to ensure that we construct large dams. As it is, we are experiencing heavy rainfall. We can see the destruction that is being caused by the water. Unfortunately, that water ends up in the ocean, and we cannot use it anymore. Once the big dams are done, I promise Kenyans, as much as things may look as they do today, we are going to revolutionize this country and the way we do agriculture. We will ensure that Kenya becomes one of the leading countries in green agriculture, green energy and green industrialization. This can only be done if we change the way we have been doing things. By empowering county governments, devolution, farmers and ensuring that we have sound laws in place, it will not only protect farmers, but ensure that cooperative movements are strong to undertake research, as it is in Columbia. We know that we had some of the strongest research institutions in this country. However, due to underfunding, most of the researchers have left the county and gone to the Western countries. We need to reinforce this and ensure that our research institutes, universities, including the institutions that are mandated with the control of coffee and other agricultural production, work in tandem, so that they can bring the economy, research and the crop in alignment with what is trading in the market. This cannot be done without utmost political good will. What the Kenya Kwanza Government has brought on the table, to ensure that we formulate all these Bills, is"
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