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    "content": "Town and now it is making so many opportunities for employment of our people and businesses. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of research, I want to address Prof. Otieno of Masinde Muliro University in Kakamega; that he must now narrow his mind to our county because other counties are also doing their bit. We would like to see him doing more research on sugarcane farming. Sometimes we do not have the right seed because the seed we have might not have been properly researched to be the best producing and growing in the shortest time. We want him to do research into the sugar industry itself; especially, we would like him to research into diversification of production at the factory. One reason Mumias, Miwani, Muhoroni and SONY sugar companies have not done very well, is that they continue relying on sugar as the main product from the factory. The international practice is for sugar to be a by-product. There must be co- generation, in this case, production of ethanol. I was amazed when I was in Panama and Cuba recently and I found out that most of the vehicles there are powered by alcohol. When you go to fueling station, you choose between normal petrol that we use here or alcohol. We need innovation. We should do furniture, fertilizer and power production from sugar cane. However, all these can only be achieved, if research is done at the university. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, still on the issue of research, I want to urge Prof. Otieno at Masinde Muliro University to emphasize the issue of alternative medicine. We have now established a medical school at the university and we would like the research there to dig into the rich traditional herbs that have over millennia been used to contain malaria, to treat tetanus, to treat flu and many other things. Some of us who came from poor families did not have access to modern medicine all the time. We were treated with these herbs. Since those tablets are now readily available, people have forgotten that kind of research. These herbs are already there in Kakamega Forest. I believe even in other parts of the country where you have forests, the same herbs are there. We would like to see research on beef farming. Those of us who rear fighting bulls have herbs that we pick from Kakamega Forest which we feed our bulls on and within 24 months, the bull becomes very huge. If this research can be done, then beef farming at zero grazing level can be done on small scale farming. We want research to be done on these herbs because we have psychotropic substances which we pick from Kakamega Forest. When we were young boys, when would go to Rivers Yala, Isiukhu, or Nzoia to do fishing. We did not go there with any hook or net, we simply picked herbs which had psychotropic substances, crushed the herbs, poured the herbs upstream and the fish would come when they were drunk; we would just pick them and go home. These are some areas of research. There are some psychotropic substances which we feed to our bulls for psyching them up. When you want the bulls to have a real game, you give them these herbs and they give you a very beautiful game. Finally but not least, on the issue of research, all Kenyans have heard of the fatal accidents that you hear in Five Star hotels where the rich who are on sexual adventure of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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