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    "id": 305354,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/305354/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be very brief. Just like all my colleagues have said this morning, we must thank hon. Mungatana for introducing this very important Bill on establishing the Coconut Development Authority with very specific functions; to promote and regulate production, processing, marketing, grading, storage, collection, transportation and warehousing of all coconut produce and all coconut by-products as it has been stated in Clause 11 of the Bill. In doing this, I want to make an observation that follows the point that hon. Nyamweya has just made, that most of our development authorities and our boards were established during colonial times which were geared towards promoting the so-called cash crops for those days. It is high time we went beyond the philosophy and mentality of cash crops and realized that we have tremendous potential in agricultural production that we should exploit, not necessary based on using the vagaries of nature as we do at the moment for the crops that were not deemed to be cash crops but by harnessing the environment, particularly soil and water to increase productivity. One of the things that I expected in the functions of the authority was to promote research into generating various"
}