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    "id": 1481217,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "During those discussions in Angola, a total of 22 delegates took to the floor to share their experiences and insights concerning the pressing issues of ensuring a stable and sustainable food supply for the world's population. Concerns were given from the global north, global south and all the delegates explained their experiences. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have given the general challenges we had, which were explained in these debates. Every delegate explained what happened in their home countries and the strategies that could help in ensuring that food stability is achieved within the continent. There were many strategies that were given and we are already employing some of them. We know our State Department of Agriculture in this country is doing what it needs to do to ensure that we have enough food supply for this country. One of the things was discussed as a strategy and needs to be emphasized here in Kenya is that we need to involve our youth in production that is agricultural. For a very long time, people used to think that it was unfashionable to go into agriculture. Our children, our generation and in the one that followed us aspired to be professionals in various fields like in Engineering, Law, like I did, in Medicine, Architecture and all other big professions. As we went on, the other generation that came after us aspired to be Information Technology (IT) specialists or open companies in that area that was new at that time and go into technology-oriented businesses. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, however, few people aspired to be top agriculturalists. People would aspire to inherit land from their parents and make them productive. In terms of all the resolutions that were passed, I would emphasize on increasing our food production. We need to make agriculture in Kenya sexy. We need to make it very attractive to the young people. We need our young people to start seeing it as an opportunity to add something, instead of thinking of opening a kiosk to sell cigarettes or any other thing. We need to tell our young people that agriculture is a good thing that you can do. If you do not want to do agriculture to produce crops, you can go into other forms of agriculture. People are raising chicken, farm animals and all manner of things around the space of agriculture. Some of the people who have made it in life are people who sell eggs or business around wheat farming, maize growing and the people supplying the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to carry out a massive re-education of minds. We must tell our children that it is good to be able to feed yourself. If you are at home, you must tell your children that it is good to go to the farm. They must see us do this, so that it is accepted as a fashionable thing to do. I will not be saying enough if I do not mention the fact that some of our Television (TV) stations have done an extremely good job. I will single out two national TV stations that I have seen take their time to discuss programmes on agricultural production. I am impressed that their presenters are young people who are doing that kind of work. The prayer is that we can push this idea, that it becomes acceptable and fashionable. amongst our children. Once they accept this idea, they can go to agriculture food production. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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