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    "id": 33800,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the district level, we work through the District Education Board (DEB) and District Environment Committee (DEC). The DEC is the one that advises the DEB on the appropriateness of the trees to be planted. There is a policy now in place that 10 per cent of agricultural land be converted into a forest. For us to be able to realize that, the agenda between the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of Education was to raise as many seedlings as possible. The part that may be weak, and that is where the hon. Member may be right, is the fact that the weak line is to ensure that farmers actually look for these seedlings, so that we ensure that we fulfill our law on 10 per cent of agricultural land because nowhere in this country have we fulfilled that. So, there should not be any seedlings that are not utilized. The seedlings should go to the farmers and we should encourage that. What I would take from what the hon. Member is saying is to ensure that our DECs are sensitized to sensitize the communities to buy seedlings from these schools because that was the intention."
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