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    "id": 1382610,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1382610/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Emaase, for this very important Bill. Cotton can be grown in 50 per cent of this country because it does very well in ecological zones 3, 4, and 5, which is about 80 per cent of this country’s landmass. Therefore, cotton will be an equaliser that can generate a lot of money. It will also save us a lot of hard currency since we will not be importing other clothes, but we will instead manufacture our own. It will help revive dead industries such as the KICOMI, the RIVATEX, and Raymond Limited, which were all vibrant at one time. Cotton is a labour-intensive crop, which means that in our country where many youths are jobless, this industry could create jobs for them. That way, they will engage in something meaningful and stop taking drugs. Cotton seed cake is a very important animal feed during drought season. When there was a serious drought in this country and we lost many animals, we were importing cotton seed cakes from Uganda and Tanzania and taking them as far as North Eastern; to my constituency, Mandera West. The cotton seed cake helped some of our animals to survive. They really helped. Therefore, cotton seed cake is a very important by-product. I remember we used to have many cotton ginneries all over the country, which have now collapsed. Very few of them are functional, which means that many jobs have been lost. Therefore, it is the right time to ensure that Bt cotton seeds are introduced. We should encourage our farmers to grow cotton so that we can go back to where we were many years ago."
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