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"content": "When county governments embrace it fully, we will see an increase in farming of this bean. In turn, we will get huge yields after harvesting the beans. I hope we will look at the post-harvest so that we do not have the beans being destroyed by weevils or other adverse conditions that different regions face. The Government has prioritised subsidizing fertilizer prices. This has made the fertilizer available to the lowest levels at the different areas where we come from. I am saying that because I also got reports from my own village of farmers who got access to this fertilizer. With such kind of incentives to boost agriculture, we have no reason for people not participating in it because it is the backbone of our economy. This will make it lucrative for the young people. You have mentioned embracing of current modern technology. This is where most of our young people lie and they will come up with innovation. There will be need of modalities of siphoning such kind of ideas to the different county governments so that we have county governments taking up this project fully. Registering the farmers who will be farming the mung bean will make it easier to mobilize these farmers into cooperatives. When they do it in their smallholder capacity,"
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"content": "The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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"content": "sometimes they are not able to apply for loans and other incentives that come with farming. With such a Bill, we will have a provision that will allow small farmers have SACCOs that will give them access to loan and other existing facilities. I will be looking forward to young people taking funds from the Youth Fund. The other week, I visited the youth fund and realized that, in some regions, young people do not take up this money. It is money that is given at an affordable rate. Once you have an organized group, you can repay. I support Sen. Wambua for coming up with such a Bill at this time. The decisions made in this House are matters of life and death. This is a life decision and I commend Sen. Wambua for a well-thought-out proposal."
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"content": " Sen. Veronica Maina, proceed."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I first want to thank you for the opportunity to give my contribution in relation to the Bill that has been introduced by Sen. Wambua and to congratulate him for thinking about making a legislation that touches on a crop like the mung bean. If you look at the categorization of this crop, it is in the category that does not get the attention like tea, coffee, cotton and pyrethrum. For a long time, these crops have been used to feed the nation and they seem to be delegated not to the first level, but to a different level. They do not seem to be the first degree crops that are given the attention and the kind of resource that one would expect to be invested in. The commitment by the Senator to develop a legislation to support mung beans farmers is highly commendable. We hope that a legislation of this nature will be drafted for other crops in this category. The only concern – I would have wanted the Senator to be here, I see he is still here – is that it is as though the mung bean has been selected within the bean family to gain attention and location that it has found within a specific legislation that regulates the whole environment that is going to deal with this crop. The proposed Bill is comprehensive. It provides a framework for the coordinated implementation of the national policies and strategies on the development and regulation of the mung bean industry. It is also intended to facilitate and develop a framework to regulate and promote the development of mung bean industry in Kenya in order to make it competitive at the international market. I am asking myself whether the Senator would have considered including the different species of beans within the same Mung Bean Bill in which he would have to amend to title of the Mung Beans Bill to make it the Beans Bill, because there are different categories. We have other types of beans like Wairimu and Mwitemania. These are different kind of beans which are also in this country whose farmers have probably suffered the same fate as those of mung bean. The framework proposed in this Bill is comprehensive because it not only touches on the national Government, but it goes down to the county government. This is important because agriculture is a devolved function. It puts some functions upon the Council of Governors (CoG)."
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"content": "QUORUM"
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on a point of order."
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"content": "The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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"content": " What is your point of order, Sen. Okenyuri?"
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order 41 on quorum during proceedings of the Senate. We do not have the numbers to sustain this engagement."
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