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    "id": 700482,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me now slow down because I was moving fast because of time. Genetically modified crops are nothing new in science. It is where we have crop breeding through a simple biological process. For example, you can take pollen from maize or any other crop, and put it on another crop of the same variety, but of different genetic composition. You, therefore, end up with a good crop variety. Plant breeding is part of genetically modified crops. The only difference is that in plant breeding, it takes a long time to remove pollen or a gene from one crop to another of the same variety. It also takes a long time for you to come up with a new hybrid crop. With the advent of technology, it is now possible to remove a gene or that small part of an organism that makes it and transfer it to another crop. That hastens the process of breeding and you end up with more superior crops to the old ones. Otherwise, in normal life, the crops we grow have wild relatives. For example we have wild millet which is a relative of millet. It has certain qualities and, if you cross the wild and domesticated millet, you end up with a better quality which may be resistant to various diseases. I just want to make this clear because this is a very complicated subject and I want Members to understand it. It is just like breeding animals. When you want to take your animal for breeding---"
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