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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
(i) Consideration and publication of Bills to amend the Crops Act 2013 so as to unbundle the regulation and management of major crops that fall within the armpits of the agriculture and food authority and establish stand alone agencies for their regulation.
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
(ii) Thematic conferences to address challenges facing various subsectors in the agriculture sector and reforms including the coffee conference, coconut conference, cotton conference, sugar conference and the pyrethrum conference.
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
(iii) Meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives to elaborate on the policy framework that is being applied to undertake the ongoing agricultural reforms by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives.
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
I thank you.
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
Yes, Madam Deputy Speaker, I can do that from here. My Committee has been working very closely with the Council of Governors (CoG). Indeed, in the development of all these Bills, we sit with the Committee on Agriculture of the CoG. The report I was giving was about what we have been doing.
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
We have had several meetings with the CoG. In fact, all these conferences I am talking about, we are planning jointly with the CoG. It is true that agriculture is a devolved function. We involve the CoG in every step. Where there is registration, we involve the CoG.
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, the House may be happy to know that even where the Ministry has tried to avoid the involvement of the county governments, this Committee has broken the stalemate and we have moved forward. For example, in the Coffee Bill
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
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2 Jun 2021 in Senate:
that is coming to this House, the Bill from the Ministry of Agriculture had totally avoided involvement of the county governments.
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