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    "id": 953218,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "id": 13441,
        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I come from a rice-growing area. Today, we do not have agricultural extension officers to support farmers. Our county governments would have those skills if we are to transit our children from Form Four to tertiary colleges. They would return to the counties and help to enhance farming. Today, if you go to Mwea, you will find farmers struggling. There are no agricultural extension officers with the right skills. If you have to acquire one, that person would be so expensive that farmers would not even afford to pay him and yet, we have so many young men and women in the villages. If you went to some of the villages in Mwea Constituency today, and you want to gather 500 young men and women, you would do so in an hour, meaning that those are people who have completed secondary education and they are just there, not knowing what to do next. They are just in the houses. They can come out of those houses anytime they are called upon. If such a group is given an opportunity to acquire skills on farming and made available to farmers, probably, this country would not even be importing a kilogramme of rice from outside the country. We lack such skills."
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