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    "id": 1382572,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1382572/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": "This is not the only cash crop that we have lost as a country. We have also lost pyrethrum. In the 70s, Kenya was producing 90 per cent of the world’s pyrethrum. Today, we are producing less than 10 per cent. On that one, I would like to recognise and congratulate the Governor of Elgeyo-Marakwet County because he has initiated a programme for cultivation of pyrethrum and it is doing extremely well. There are also cashew nuts at the Coast. That was a big foreign income earner which also went down. We also had palm oil at the Coast that failed. We had sunflower which also collapsed. If you look at the cost of fodder in Kenya now as a dairy farmer, you will find that the challenge that we have is the cost of buying animal feeds. Today, we are importing animal feeds from Uganda. We get it from the cotton in Uganda. The cotton seed is a byproduct which is used for animal feed. Same thing with sunflower. Therefore, this is an extremely important subject. It will improve not only our foreign currency, but also reduce on some of the imports that we get into the country. With that, I would like to congratulate Hon. Mary Emaase and I hope the Committee that will be tasked with it will give it the seriousness it deserves. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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