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    "id": 1009027,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1009027/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to also add my voice to this important Statement by Sen. (Dr.) Milgo. I wish we could support the youth in our rural areas to invest in food security. Since agriculture is now a devolved function, I also wish our county governments invested in supporting smallholder farmers and youth carrying out agriculture. We need to encourage small and medium investors to boost agricultural systems, so that we do not lack food. At this time when we have all our children at home, they need three meals a day. If a family does not have food to give to the children at home, then we shall have a crisis in our counties. It is time that both the national Government and county governments supported agricultural systems through financial support and giving inputs to our farmers. Fertilizer subsidies, seeds and pesticides and herbicides should be given on time, so that our farmers can produce. As I support this important Statement, I encourage the Committee that will look into the issues to go further and look at how we can give money to our youth, especially at this time when most of them are free at home, to buy food from producing areas and take them to the markets, so that they can get some little money in their pockets."
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