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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mithika Linturi",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I once again thank the Senate for the good work they are doing for this country. I am happy to be here this morning. I had asked to be excused today because I had issues at hand. However, because of my appreciation and respect for the House of Parliament, we had to stop all the issues that we are running out of Nairobi yesterday evening and today, for me to appear this morning. I am ready to answer the four Questions, so that if I have a bit of time remaining, I can catch up with my programme in Kericho later in the day. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is my reply to Question No.047 by the distinguished Senator of Kirinyaga County. (a) The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development in collaboration with the relevant State agencies and the county governments has formed a multi-agency team, whose mandate is to collect geolocation or geocoordinates for all the coffee growing farms, estates and coffee cooperatives in all the 33 counties. The multi-agency team comprises of Kenya Forestry Service, Wildlife Research and Training Institute (WRTI) and Kenya Water Tower Agency (KWTA). This is to provide secondary data on forest and tree cover, all protected areas, conservancies and water towers, respectively. The Directorate of Resource Survey and Remote Sensing (DRSRS) will avail remotely sensed data and shape files that will be necessary for baseline. The Regional Centre for mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) is coordinating the compilation of existing geographic vector data and Kenya space agency for satellite imaging and space systems. Remote agency team will deploy a field ground survey to collect the Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates using GPS gadgets, satellite image, interpretation and analysis to determine the coverage of coffee farm estates in the targeted counties. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development through the Agricultural Food Authority (AFA) will establish and operationalize the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) data centre for receiving and transmitting data on coffee production through Coffee Directorate, produce coffee digital maps, establish coffee database that will not only address the European Union (EU) market demands, but also enhance management of the coffee subsector in Kenya. Any other information that will be collected will include, but not limited to forest cover marking to determine the probable level of encroachment by coffee farmers to provide precautionary measures to avert the EU market. (b) The Senator wants to know the institution leading these efforts on collection of the geolocation coordinates of coffee-producing farms. The Ministry goes through AFA and Coffee Directorate is the leading institution in this effort as required by the EU regulations."
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