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    "id": 1569778,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1569778/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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    "content": "I would like to thank all my colleagues for supporting the Bill. It shows the importance of extension services in our country as an enabler towards agricultural production and productivity. A few issues have come up that I would like to highlight. We looked at the composition of the board as a Committee. We, first, looked at the structure of the board itself. We are not creating a new institution because we are very much aware that the Government is merging institutions to reduce the number of Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs). We have looked at the existing Agricultural Information and Resource Centre (AIRC) and transformed it into the National Agricultural Information Repository, which will link up all the sources of information, technologies, innovations and management practices to be channelled back to the county governments and released to farmers. We have also looked at the area of diagnosis and taken into account the technological advancement that the country is at now in terms of how farmers can take photographs of what they see in their farms. They can relay the photographs to a county outfit that we have renamed ‘diagnostic centre.’ From the diagnostic centre, it will be possible for the photographs to go to a repository and the repository can get information that can be relayed back to the farmer. Through such process, we can solve a problem."
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