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    "id": 274897,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what was interesting is that on average, assuming a lactation period of three or five days, cows in Israel, in that arid place, are giving an average of 12,000 litres per annum. That is about ten times more than our cows can do although climatically and looking at all factors on board, we are supposed to do much better. I am talking about climate because they have to go to an extent of having air conditioning. What am I trying to say? Look at Githunguri, for instance - and I thank hon. Githunguri for his work before he came to this Parliament and what he has continued doing in promoting the dairy industry. Four billion shillings was realized from the sale of milk in Githunguri. It is those kinds of incentives, good management and good outlets that lead to improvement of production and what goes on around the dairy animal. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have for a long time assumed that what comes from the West is good. I want to go back to the State of Israel again and tell this hon. House today that what is called the State of Israel and their farming and what has been frightening all of us here is exactly 400,000 acres. Four hundred thousand hectares is equivalent to 1 million acres. One million acres, when you are not seated there from where you come from, you donate that one million acres and it will still be a drop in the ocean. This is the case and yet they are able to generate not less than US$2 billion in terms of export. Since they are able to embrace technology they are able to do production. The New KCC, the old KCC, the KCC original are all endeavors towards production of milk and adequate marketing. Whatever can be done and I feel really challenged by Mr. Ababu Namwamba who is a senior counsel--- But looking at it, even as a senior counsel he is able to wear spectacles and tell livestock people: “Wait a minute, there must be a challenge.” Since you seem not to see or hear as I now debate here - there is not a single Minister from that Ministry or anybody from the Executive. They are still basking in their improved offices and I understand those offices cost exactly the amount of money that we require to have the maize driers. That is the amount of money they used to renovate their offices. So, they are sitting in the comfort of their offices and they are not listening. They also have flat screens and good screens in their offices but they are not switched on. So, they may not be hearing. So, we have to say it here and say it loudly. There is a problem in the agricultural sector, and among them the critical one is the New KCC issue. You will recall that the origin of KCC is Naivasha and it was Delamere who initiated that move to have good creameries. My late father, Daniel Mututho Kimotho was a clerk in that particular industry when it started and the idea was to have a pipeline delivering milk to Nairobi so that it could be economical and good. That was a good dream for Delamere but it never happened. But having said that we should now, as a policy---"
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