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    "id": 977199,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/977199/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana Central, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Lodepe Nakara",
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The challenges that are facing the Coffee Research Institute in Kenya are too much. The institution was started in 1908. It is a very old institution which we expect by now should be self-sustaining and self-growing. The importance of research in this country is to add value. When we do not do research, the price of all our products will be low internationally. A research institute would help us add value on our products so that we compete favourably internationally. So, this is an important institution and we need to fund it. With research, we will discover new methods and technologies. As we get into global competition, we discover that we need new technologies so that we can compete with other countries that produce coffee. Without research, how can we discover those new technologies? We will continue using traditional ways of doing farming and we will continue having a low output. Research also helps us in marketing. If you do not do research, we will not know where we to market our products. We will not know which country is available for us. We will then fail as a country. Before I talk about the challenges, those are the things that we need to see in research institutions, including those on livestock. Among the few challenges that we discovered is underfunding. All the research institutes, including the universities, nowadays, do not do research because there is no funding for doing research in this country. That is why industrialisation in our country is very low. It is because we do not do research. We need to fund these institutions so that they can go out of Kenya and do research in other countries where coffee is being grown. That will help us get markets out there. The other challenge is understaffing. We got time to visit the Coffee Research Institute. If you go there now, you will find old people who were employed in the 1970s and 1980s. There is 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."
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