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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, sometimes it is frightening to be a farmer in Kenya, because you faithfully have to follow so many rules and regulations. All put together currently, they stand at 331rules, regulations and statutes. This will require that you more or less have registrar in your own farm to sort out the rules and regulations and all the Acts that govern this particular area. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill is so well drafted that it captures all the general principles in the agronomic area. It captures everything that can be said on agricultural marketing, and simplifies it in a very simple Bill. It is not like what we expect in a couple of days, the Insolvency Bill, which I understand has about 1,113 pages. This is easy for any farmer to follow. Yet it is so effective that agriculture will grow and improve. I want to single out one crop which has been very contentious and this is pyrethrum. The story of pyrethrum is dealt with inadequately. I will emphasize the word “inadequately” in Cap. 340. When you look at the way this Crops Bill is structured, you see that the fears and worries in Cap.340 are addressed so adequately; this is because you do not have to have a monopoly in processing. You do not have to have a monopoly processing and citing a very good reason that you have certain rights generally called royalties. Instead what happens is that you will be allowed to continue enjoying the royalties at a level of not more than five per cent because, again, it cannot be left open, because you may decide to ask for royalties at 100 per cent. If you are at farm level you will enjoy not more than one per cent; you will then allow as many people as"
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