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    "content": "beautiful climate and natural resources is an agricultural country. Therefore, when I look at this Budget, I would have expected that there is going to be real injection of resources into sectors like coffee, tea, dairy, sugar, cotton et cetera . Without being shy, we should allocate resources to the people. Swaziland has managed to be self sufficient in food by a very simple method. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, when Malawi came up with a policy of giving its farmers free fertilizer, free seeds and simple irrigation projects, the World Bank and other bodies did not support that policy. Today, Malawi is exporting food to other countries in Africa. Malawi is being talked of as an example of a country that has come from the doldrums of being unable to feed itself. This was achieved because the President of Malawi took it upon himself and put agriculture under his Ministry and ensured resources were unreservedly and jealously put into the Ministry of Agriculture for the farmers in rural areas. Today, Malawi is self sufficient in food. Kenya should be there but what do we need? We should get the coffee farmers free fertilizer, give tea farmers free fertilizer and give the sugar cane farmers free inputs and the kind of production you will witness in this country will be unparalleled. Kenya will be moving in the direction of development. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, there is the issue of the youth. About 70 per cent of the population of this country is composed of the youth. Let us not have minute proposals to support the youth. If we are serious, the beginning of the development of this country is to create employment for our youth. Any big Budget, like the infrastructure budget of Kshs180 billion, the real test that it is contributing to the economy and stability of this country is the issue of how many youth will be employed. I want to report to this House that maybe, out of the Kshs180 billion infrastructure project, only Kshs2 billion or Kshs3 billion will be utilized in the employment of our youth. The rest will be used in employment of prisoners from other countries. This is not the way to develop. So, let us come up with policies that put resources in a big way in the hands of the youth because that is where the big population is. If we do so, Kenya will be on the road to development."
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