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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise again, pursuant to Standing Order No.53(1), to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries regarding the status of implementation of the Edible Crops Promotion Project by the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA). In the Statement, the committee should – (1) Provide details of the edible oils crops promotion project by the AFA, including the project's justification, a breakdown of the Kshs981 million budgetary requirement and allocation, as well as the counties participating in this project; (2) Report on the status of the implementation of the project, stating how and when sunflower seeds were procured and explain to Kenyans the decision by the government to procure the seeds from Zambia and not to procure the seeds locally, particularly from Trans Nzoia County; (3) Provide details on the distribution of the sunflower seeds across the country, disclosing the criteria for distribution, the number of farmers who have received the seeds so far, as well as the support to be offered to the farmers in the short and the long term; (4) Provide a list of the factories in Kenya capable of processing sunflower and oil seeds into edible oil, specifying whether they are government -privately owned or cooperatively owned, cooperative society owned, explaining the initiatives that the government has set up to boost the local capacity to process the anticipated increase in safflower seed production and consumption; and finally, (5) Explain how the government plans to monitor and evaluate the implementation of this project, indicating when the evaluation report will be released."
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