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    "id": 924828,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "agriculture with not less than 10 per cent of their budgets. The countries that have mainstreamed that protocol in the financial planning have grown. They are growing at more than 12 per cent. They are growing at two-digit figures. Those countries which are still lagging behind, like Kenya, are still waiting. We cannot feed ourselves. We cannot talk about exporting when we are not able to feed ourselves. We can talk about industrialisation until the cows come back home but we will never do this unless we consolidate our raw materials, have delivery decisions on how to produce and systems of producing, have transformation measures and a revolution. Other countries’ economies have expanded because they embraced agrarian reforms. Agrarian reforms were forms of agricultural revolution. They revolutionised their agriculture. When we read about the Tennessee Valley Authority, what were they doing? What do we get as a people and technocrats of this country? We do not borrow those lessons and try them out. We borrow those lessons and they stay with us. When we retire, we kill those lessons. We travel this world and learn. In Vietnam, they are reorganising agriculture from smallholder to large farms. They have zoned as per their potential. They have identified rice production areas so that everybody in those areas grows rice. They have identified potato production areas so that everybody in those areas grows potatoes. They have identified wheat production areas so that everybody in those areas grows wheat. They have industrialised their country. We will never industrialise this country unless we focus on the reality and do what other countries have done to get to where they are today. We have never focused on anything. We are still surviving and leaving our farmers alone and hoping that somehow the climate will be good. Even the Budget Statement starts with the phenomenal statement that whenever the climate, weather and year is good, the economy grows. This is because agriculture Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is positively correlated with the national GDP and we do nothing about this. We do not lack the money because we can create projects in this country. It is wrong planning. We focus on the wrong priorities. We better be realistic. We cannot say that we will produce industrial products and sell them out there."
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