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    "content": ". Similarly, this is the case with the Centre of Plant Genetic Resources Centre for Food and Agriculture. I mentioned that animal and crop husbandry finds itself home with county governments. I believe they should be involved. The newly established Plant Genetic Resource Centre for Food and Agriculture which shall be responsible for the conservation and sustainable utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture including indigenous seeds and plant varieties in Kenya, tells you that we need some substantive – although I do not know whether this will be the opportunity but I think the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries led by the Senator for Meru should find a method how some of these things that are proposed here which are very unique, noble, new in our agriculture and have not be there in the past can be integrated into our county. In the previous Bill, we stated that county governments must integrate energy planning in their plans and policies. In terms of the mandate of this Senate, we should insist that that the proposals in this amendment Bill resonate into the planning in county governments because they are proposing new things that were not there prior to this or done at the county level. The resource center has been deleted and substituted with a Plant Genetic Resource Committee. I am happy because there is another Bill that is coming from the National Assembly that sort of touches on what they call Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and other substances. I will make submissions that there is a portion where the persons who are doing research in Kenya, in terms of transfer of research between a scientist and another in Kenya has been impeded by virtue of a Schedule that appears in a Bill that is before us, that suggests that, before you can, for example, transfer material such as a mushrrom that you have collected in Kajiado to Mutiso who is at a laboratory in Machakos, you will require the approval of Parliament. While we do so, I hope that we will not pass this Bill in a hurry and forget that our mandate is to consider county governments. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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