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    "id": 942340,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/942340/?format=api",
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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": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to move this Motion. I beg to move: THAT, aware that farmers in Kenya are least organised into Associations, following the collapse of the Agricultural Cooperatives; further aware that, the Crops Act, 2013 provides for registration of farmers so as to establish who they are and what they produce; noting that Government’s efforts to establish farmers’ organisations have ended up delivering short-lived and unsustainable initiative- based groups which fizzle out soon after their formation; further noting that the best way to organise farmers is through their organisations; appreciating that the best suited organisation to undertake farmers’ registration is the Kenya National Farmers’ Federation which has both experience and capacity; further noting that through organised farmers, farming will be more beneficial in terms of volumes, lowered cost of production and improving organised raw material supply to industry; realising that organising farmers into Agri-business entities is a costly undertaking which calls for Government support, and acknowledging that through organised production systems, the country will achieve the Big 4 Agenda faster and also create more and better jobs in the Agricultural Value Chains; this House urges the Government to facilitate and support the Kenya National Farmers’ Federation to mobilise and organise the registration of farmers into preferred entities and manage national farmers’ database for use in engagements and sustainable management of the various Agricultural Product Value Chains. I come from the background where we have the Crops Act, 2013 which has provisions that I wish to highlight. The first one is the objective and purpose of this Act, Section 3 that basically presupposes that the Act is supposed to accelerate the growth and development of agriculture in general and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}