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    "id": 977093,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/977093/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Livestock Research Act, 2013 (No.17 of 2013), Report of the National Taskforce on Coffee Sub- sector Reforms and the Crops (Coffee) (General) Regulations, 2019. It is worth noting that coffee research is undertaken by the CRI of the Kenya Agriculture Research and Livestock Organisation (KARLO). In 1944, the colonial government acquired Jacaranda Farm at Ruiru and established the Coffee Research Station. Laboratories were constructed and completed in 1949. All this was funded by the Government of the day. The Coffee Research Foundation (CRF) was established in 1964 under the Company's Act (Cap 486). On 1st July 2014, four State corporations, namely, the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Tea Research Foundation (TRF), Coffee Research Foundation (CRF) and the Kenya Sugar Research Foundation (KESREF) were effectively dissolved and merged to form the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO). The CRF was consequently transformed into CRI as one of the institutes under KALRO. The mandate of CRI is to conduct research in all areas of production, processing and marketing. In addition, the institute is expected to provide routine services to the coffee industry. In order to discharge its mandate, the CRI has established research stations across the country. The substations are located at Mariene (Meru), Kisii, Kitale and Koru in Kipkelion. The institute also runs a demonstration plot in Bungoma. The institute is headed by one Director, Dr. Elijah Gichuru. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Executive Order No.1 of 2018 established the State Department for Agriculture Research, which is mandated to promote agricultural research and facilitate the agriculture sector for social-economic development and industrialisation. The specific mandate includes crop research, agricultural seed research, livestock research and development, tsetse fly and trypanosomiasis research and control, crop and animal genetic research."
}