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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "When you move around all over the country, you find some cows. The only problem is that there are indigenous animals which you need to put in a lot to get a bottle of milk. The small farm holdings are also not given proper care. With a Bill like this and proper management, we will get guidelines on what should happen. The only thing I see is that the present Government and the Government at Independence have been a letdown. I remember when we were young, there were extension services. We had extension officers all over. Even those who used to come and show how we take care of the farms against soil erosion have vanished. When we took over the jobs, every agricultural officer preferred to stay in the head office rather than go to the field. One of the things I have been thinking about your county, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, is that the agricultural officers in offices at Mbale, I will send them out to the farms so that they can help the people when I become the governor. There is no point of being an agricultural or veterinary officer and you are staying at the head office. You are not serving any purpose there. We want the old mamas, wazees and young people to be assisted to do what this Bill addresses. As we talk about Vision 2030 which started during the first term of President Kibaki, it looked very far but it is now 13 years away. By that time, we must be having experts in place who should now have the country zoned like we used to have the highlands for growing maize and other foodstuffs for export and local consumption. Even when you pass a place like Molo, around Mau Summit, when we were young, you would see sheep and other animals on large scale farms. They have divided that land into small pieces. That sheep has disappeared. Now you find somebody keeping one animal. That is what we should address. So far, the aspect of saying that we are looking for oil and minerals, they could be there, but exploiting them is a high cost exercise. We have high potential areas like the arid and semi-arid areas. We need to zone them for that. Even in the western part of the country, they no longer keep animals as they used. When you give somebody a Kshs100 note, the milk is coming from one part of the country. The milk is coming from Tuzo and so on. There is nothing we are producing on the other side. That is why somebody said one time that if you got people from western part of the country and brought them to central Kenya and you got somebody from central Kenya and took him to western Kenya and gave them three or five years, the person from western Kenya will want to go back. These are things we need to seriously address as a country. Discipline must be instilled in our people. There must be institutions which can assist them to do that but, at the same time, there must be some discipline."
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