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    "id": 1526822,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1526822/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "He has talked about subsidies, and emphasized that in every economy and sector, subsidies must be there. I would like to ask the CS what our current agricultural policy is. When Mwai Kibaki was President, we had the strategy for revitalization of agriculture, and the CS was in the Cabinet. That strategy talked of consolidation, and we ended up with the Agricultural and Food Authority (AFA). Today AFA is dead. Almost every other crop has divested from AFA, the latest being cotton. Tea has divested, as well as fisheries. We have not processed in this House a Sessional Paper on agricultural policy. The Foreign Affairs Ministry brought a Sessional Paper on Kenya's foreign policy. Agriculture is so important, contributing to 33 per cent of our Gross domestic product (GDP), that we cannot allow agricultural sector policies to be driven by individual ministers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, we have almost five ministers in that space in a period of six-seven years, and every one of them comes with a personal passion. It cannot be run by personal passions. It should be run through a coherent policy that has even been processed by Parliament as a Sessional Paper. Could the CS confirm to this House that he will bring that policy to this House to be considered alongside the other policies that the Executive has brought, because it looks like the agricultural sector is running on autopilot, or running on the whims of the CS and the President. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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