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    "id": 334097,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/334097/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kosgei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 59,
        "legal_name": "Sally Jepngetich Kosgei",
        "slug": "sally-kosgei"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Kenya Agricultural Research Bill, Bill No.60 of 2012, be now read a Second Time. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is even going to be shorter than the other one. I know you do not like things being short, but it will be shorter. You like them long, but I like them short. This Bill is to consolidate research. It is really an attempt to bring together the “R” and “D”; the research and development which are so scattered in this country. As it is now, the whole research section in agriculture which started in the 1960s was a simple small department in the Ministry of Agriculture. This has now grown extensively, but grown in a most wildly way to the extent that we have lots of institutions, each of them pursuing parallel research with no meeting point for this research to be used. We think this is a waste of resources. We think that we have many scientists; 540 PhD holders are involved in full time, as well as others. But their research cannot be utilized well because it does not reside in the same house. What is worse is that, in fact, it is not known to one scientist what it is that another has researched into. Therefore, the loser is the farmer and the country. Our aim is simply very small. That is to create an apex body to better manage and co-ordinate agricultural research, so as to benefit from economies of scale, bring about efficiency by avoiding duplication of activities and provide for a critical mass of scientific competences in all our commodity and factor research into all our activities."
}