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    "content": "Hon. Members, agriculture is the largest employer in the economy accounting for 60 per cent of total employment. In recognition of its central role, my administration earmarked the sector as a key pillar of the Big Four Agenda, as we seek to ensure food security and nutrition for all Kenyans. Our reforms are aimed at being farmer-centric and are focused on reducing the cost of food, increasing agricultural value-addition and offering incentives for farming. To enhance food production at the household level, over the last year, we have constructed 4,400 water pans under the Household Irrigation Water Projects. The pans will store six million cubic meters of water, placing an additional 6,000 acres under irrigation. To address the perennial challenges in the sugar and maize sub-sectors, my administration commits to decisively act on the recommendations of the two sectoral taskforces that are slated to report their findings later this month. I expect that the teams will propose bold and transformative interventions to revive and substantially grow, in a sustainable way, these important sub-sectors. Additionally, my administration has prioritized reforms in the coffee sub-sector, and implemented numerous interventions emanating from the recommendations of the Coffee Task Force. These include the ambitious rehabilitation of 500 pulping stations in 31 coffee-growing counties."
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