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    "id": 103315,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/103315/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chachu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Motion and compliment Mr. Kaino for having moved this very relevant and timely Motion. I also commend the Minister for Agriculture for really taking the challenge of food security head on. Today, Kenya is food secure than it was two years ago just because of reviving those irrigation schemes. Today, areas like Tana River, Bura and Hola have food in surplus. I think that Members of Parliament should support this Ministry and make sure it gets more money in the Budget to make this country even more food secure in the future. I wish the Minister well. I know she has all it takes to take this Ministry to another height. Having said that, I want the Minister to consider investing in arid-lands farming. Places like Israel and many arid areas are food secure simply because they have invested in arid lands farming. There are crops that do very well there and because of that, they are food secure today. We should look at other countries. You should think outside the box and consider those arid areas. If nothing else, you should enable us to produce fodder for our livestock. Let us feed our livestock so that it will feed us. In the end, we will be food secure and we will not need any famine relief. So, we need to do that. We need to invest in rain water harvesting, building dams, water catchment and even dew harvesting in some of those areas. If we do that, for sure, those areas that normally receive famine relief and are prone to drought will be able to feed other parts of this country. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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