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    "id": 578018,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to also echo on this. I want to thank the Mediation Committee for bringing up this Report. Indeed, agriculture is the main economic factor of this country. On the side of crops all farms these days need fertilizer. I want to thank the Government for subsidizing fertilizer. I think this year we are going to have a bumper harvest in the Rift Valley and parts of western Kenya like Bungoma where I come from. The price of fertilizer came down and farmers are happy that at least the Government indeed tried to check on them. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, any country without food is no country, because we will be begging. I want to thank Kenyans because they are very hard working and in terms of agriculture we have done well and we will continue asking the Government to bring down the cost of fertilizer so that our farmers continue producing enough food for this country. On the side of animals in this country, we have been having cases of diseases. In Northern Eastern almost every year we have to push the Government. The Agricultural Extension Officers these days do not work like before. In past years the officers used to go round checking on farmers to see how their crops and animals were doing, but there is relaxation these days. Officers are employed and paid salaries but they are not working to benefit farmers. With devolution, the county governments are still a bit of relaxed. It is no longer like before when these people were in the Ministry. At least something must be done by the county government to push the extension officers to go round checking and helping farmers. With those few remarks, I support."
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