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    "id": 879275,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/879275/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13495,
        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "like ours and has experienced all the problems that probably we have experienced. It has adopted the process of increasing their acreage through various forms of consolidation. If a BPS does not go the direction of increasing the raw materials and industries through some consolidation and taking up land that is idle, I think we are making a mistake and the Big Four Agenda may not be realised. When I look at what is happening in the proposal under the Big Four Agenda especially the proposal on the food and nutritional security, the kind of proposals that are being made include supply of fertiliser which comes late, sometimes it is not even available to the farmers and strategic food reserve that is not having food security as strategic food reserve. We should ensure that we do not buy this food, we should produce it. On the other hand we are increasing on irrigation, but when I look at the manufacturing bit of it, I see some money being allocated to the development of leather industry. We are looking at textile development, modernisation of Rift Valley Textile East Africa Limited (Rivatex) and Kenya Co-operative Creameries. If I look at some of these things, I do not see the relationship between support for agriculture in terms of raw material production and support to these industries. I do not see money invested in cotton production so that Rivatex can wake up. Rivatex died because we lacked raw materials. Raw materials would have the industries developed and the infrastructure would be developed, but if there would be no raw materials to sustain those industries, moving over time there will not be development."
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