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    "id": 177012,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute for two minutes. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support this policy paper. However, I would also like to point out the following to the Minister: Overall, it is good to appreciate that the dairy industry has done tremendously well in the last five years. For instance, we have seen the increase in dairy production rise by about 194 per cent over the last five years. The other factor to consider is that the dairy sector is improving side by side with value addition. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I come from a dairy sector and I have first-hand experience about it. The only issue I have with the Minister's approach to this policy paper is; it is proposed to conduct regulation framework within the entire livestock industry. However, if we look at the dairy industry in Kenya, it is quite a unique achievement for this country so far. Even in Africa, it ranks second. It is, therefore, my argument that there is a very positive achievement that has already been realized and which, for the interest of this country, should not be forsaken. I would, therefore, urge the Minister to consider retaining the Dairy Board as a separate regulatory mechanism. We have experience from other countries where the dairy industry is the most developed. We have Poland, Australia, Denmark and the rest. They have a separate dairy industry sector. We can consider regulating the meat sector as a separate entity. The dairy products and the animal meat products are very separate, even in their marketing, quality control and so on and so forth. So, there is a strong case, therefore, to separate those two in the regulatory system. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also believe that the other emerging sectors are equally going to pose very different challenges and, therefore, attempting to regulate them under one umbrella may not really work. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other aspect is this: The policy paper seems to assume that one of the biggest challenges we have had in livestock management is about management per se . I believe there is also a strong case about resource allocation. When inadequate resources are allocated - when you do not have veterinary officers and the rest - there is no way we can be able to actually attain the results that we so badly need. But, even more importantly, in the last five years, if you have tried to explain why there has been that good performance, it has actually to do with the way farmers have been treated by the industry. If it is the dairy sector, in my constituency, which is Githunguri Constituency, in a period of about five or six years, farmers have more than tripled dairy production. That has to do with prompt payment, provision of raw inputs and so on and so forth. Those are basically the farmer support needs that are also needed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, concerning stand-book, my experience is this: That is a closed shop! Those running it have really no idea what it is! The potential we have in this country is completely untapped. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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