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    "id": 817979,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangema, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clement Kigano",
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        "legal_name": "Clement Muturi Kigano",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Motion, but I have a few riders to it. The Member for Matuga said he needs a development authority. We already have the Cashew nut Development Authority under the Agriculture Act. The processing factory, which is now moribund, was set up 30 years ago. I support the Motion, subject to certain riders. You spoke about macadamia nuts. Macadamia came to our region about 10 years ago. Macadamia has no authority. It is a local initiative. We process privately, but macadamia farming has even now extended. We support Rwanda today and it is still growing. One of the reasons why the cashew nut industry did not take off to the level that was intended was that there was politics which came to it. Secondly, there was no sufficient interest in it to the extent that the cashew nut processing factory in Kilifi did not have sufficient produce to process. If you want, you need to do a few things to develop the cashew nut sector. The first responsibility we have, as local leaders, is to sensitise our people through civic education and then encourage mass farming of cashew nuts. The Government then should chip in, through extension officers. We need infrastructure for Kilifi for de-husking. Before macadamia goes for processing, it has certain infrastructure like collection centres. We need to embrace this to the extent of encouraging our people to venture into cashew nut farming to a level that can sustain the economy. We need to borrow a leaf from Mozambique, which is not very far from us. We also need to see the zeal with which Cuba embraces sugar farming. They have gone to the extent of incorporating sugar farming in their school curriculum right from the school level up to the university level."
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