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    "id": 1569686,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1569686/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to also contribute to this Bill on the Agriculture and Livestock Extension Services. I want to thank the Chair, the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, for bringing this very important Bill to Parliament. Once upon a time, before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) brought the structural adjustment programmes, extension services were very vibrant in our communities and particularly, Uasin Gishu. With time, such services diminished until a time when we no longer have such services. Agriculture is a very important aspect of our societies. It is the backbone of our country, especially where I come from, Uasin Gishu, where we are mainly farmers. This Bill is going to be very important for us because agriculture is the only thing on which the country can depend now. We have cases of unemployment, young people who graduate from school and are at home with no access to employment, yet we have vast land in Kenya. So, that is an area which needs to be resourced, established, and needs capacity, so that we can, at least, get people going to the farms, and get quality food from agriculture. We can even depend on it for exporting and international exchange, boosting the economy of our country. We have institutions of higher learning that are premier in research. Case in point is Egerton University. I know because I taught in that institution once upon a time. We have a lot of research which has been done in agriculture. We have credible professors like Professor Kahi, Professor Bebe and Professor Kemunto, who have pioneered research in agriculture, and they have generated a lot of knowledge."
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