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"speaker_name": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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"content": ", (Tharaka, DP): Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill from the Senate which recognises that agriculture is the backbone of the economy of Kenya and most importantly that attention must be paid to the tea sector in the country. I do not come from a tea growing area, but all my neighbours grow tea. Therefore, I feel that I am obliged to speak for them because tea is the number one foreign exchange earner for this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is also good to begin by saying that we have not treated agriculture in any manner that is worth talking about in this country in spite of the pivotal role it plays in our economy. If there is any example I can give regarding our attitude towards agriculture, it is the locust menace in the country now and what we are receiving from the Ministry. It is the Ministry of Agriculture that pushed for the Crops Act. It repealed all the other crops-related Acts which were there and amalgamated them into one Act that then housed all the crops."
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