to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development - (i) Could the Ca…

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The Member for Kirinyaga County (Hon. Jane Maina, MP) to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development - (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide the measures put in place by the Government to address invasion of rice farms in Mwea irrigation scheme by Quail birds, where hundreds of acres of farms are destroyed every year as a result? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary consider compensating the farmers who are normally affected by the said menace? (iii) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain whether the Government has any plan(s) to increase the retail price of paddy rice for Mwea farmers? (To be replied before the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock)