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    "id": 301953,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/301953/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The agricultural sector provides a livelihood for over 80 per cent of Kenya’s population, most of whom are subsistence farmers in rural areas. The sector contributes about 24 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and another 27 per cent indirectly through sector economic linkages. It accounts for 65 per cent of the country’s export earnings. The Government, therefore, emphasizes on stimulating growth in the sector as outlined in The Agricultural Sector Development Strategy of 2010-2020. A well functioning agricultural extension service operated by the public and the private sector is one of the critical inputs required for the increased agricultural productivity to transform subsistent farming into the modern and commercial farming, attain food security, improve income and reduce poverty. It is, therefore, important to ensure that agricultural extension services are adequately funded, well co-ordinated and regulated; effective linkages between extension service providers and other stakeholders involved in the technology development and provision of facilitating factors and essentials."
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