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    "content": "If we can grow potatoes and have a potato board or if we can grow sorghum and have a sorghum board it means we will put more money in research and in terms of making agriculture the backbone of our country to give us more money. So, whereas I rise to support this particular Motion on the Bill, I am really of the impression that the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives did not just ask us for extension. Of course, hon. Members have spoken very well and they want this particular Act repealed. I come from a sugar belt region and 60 per cent of my constituents are sugarcane farmers. They are totally uncomfortable with this particular Act because the Kenya Sugar Board, for example, that sustains most of the work down there is going to be amalgamated, fussed with something that we do not understand and which is totally postulate. If my role here is to represent the voices of Ndhiwa, I really think this Act is not in their best interest. Let us extend this period, but let us not extend to operationalise, but to bring in various Acts. Perhaps, we should be having specific Acts for various sectors of agriculture. Let us have Acts for every agricultural sector, like the sugarcane, pyrethrum and the rest, so that we can facilitate research and other various agricultural production; one to create employment, but to also to support the developing economy."
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