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    "id": 947863,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947863/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1885,
        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": "As we support this Bill, it is important that we also take audit of how the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya and the Coffee Board of Kenya are doing. That is because we focus most of our energies on creating new state corporations and new boards and we forget the old ones, which have similar challenges. The fact is that the livestock industry is not doing well, we believe that with the passing of this Bill and the establishment of a livestock marketing board, livestock farming will improve. Unless we go back and address the challenges that the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya, the Coffee Board of Kenya and the Tea Board are facing, we might end up in the same situation. It is very important that the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock carries out an audit on the relevance of those many marketing boards for other products. As you are aware, this country has diversity of economic activities. We have, in parts of western Kenya, people who undertake sugarcane farming. We equally need those farmers to be protected from middlemen – cartels who import cheap sugar and kill our local industry."
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