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    "id": 1569712,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1569712/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "said extension workers are the link between science and agriculture. Whether we have new technology or new farm inputs, they will not reach farmers unless we have the extension workers. That is the only way we will improve productivity, agronomy and the value chain. Whatever we do, those are the people that we need. I, therefore, support this Bill because it does what is most important when we want to make change to create a structure. The objects of the Bill indicate that it creates a national agricultural extension services strategy. There will be somebody who will have the responsibility of doing that. It then creates the Board. Again, this is important. The composition of the Board, to a large extent, is appropriate, with three members appointed by the Council of Governors. Whereas I support that, the two of them that are experts should have a direct link and we should put it in the Bill. For example, we should have County Executive Committee (CEC) members appointed from counties through the Council of Governors. If we just have an expert who is appointed by the Council of Governors as a pure expert, they will lose track as to why they are in the Board. I have seen that the Board advises the Cabinet Secretary. Its focus is on the Cabinet Secretary. We should remember that the Cabinet Secretary is at the national level. That is an area we should really look at. The Board should not see itself, to a large extent, as a hand of the Cabinet Secretary, but as an entity that serves county governments as well as the national Government."
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