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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This Senate Bill No.13 of 2022 was brought to this House on 22nd February. It has been here for a while and many discussions have been going on to see how we can manage this particular crop. It is an important crop, especially for the marginal areas of Kenya. The principal objective of this Bill is basically to develop, regulate and promote production of the crop across the areas that I will mention, where it can do best. The Bill seeks to promote the use of the bean itself in various counties for purposes of food security and response initiatives when need arises. It further seeks to promote production of the bean itself to generate higher income for those regions and the growers of the crop while at the same time facilitating introduction of mung beans production technology and its general modernisation. Hon. Temporary Speaker, coming back to your question on what mung beans are, mung beans are what we call dengu . They are green grams. Green grams grow in most parts of this country, especially in the Lower Eastern Kenya Region, Mount Kenya Region and most of the Eastern and Western parts of Kenya. It is a low altitude and medium altitude crop. There are some objectives I would like to mention about this Bill. The Bill, specifically, seeks to provide a framework for co-ordination and implementation of national policies and strategies on development and regulation of the entire mung beans industry all the way from pre-production to the table. We are talking about co-ordination of activities along the entire value chain. The question is why we are bringing up co-ordination of a specific bean. This is a special bean that does well in the areas I have mentioned – medium and low altitude areas. Therefore, it is a bean that has not been scheduled as yet. If it is not in the schedule, it means The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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