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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was in Rwanda over the Easter holidays. Rwanda and Burundi are mountainous countries. What they have done is build terraces along the mountains and hills in order to arrest soil erosion. When I spoke to the President of Rwanda, he told me that he has now made it mandatory for people to plant trees. In each and every family, a tree is planted per head every year. What we are going through is very directly associated to the bad land use upcountry. A lot of soil is being wasted. I was talking to the Egyptian Ambassador last week and he told me that contrary to what people think, it is not just water that they get from here. The most precious commodity they receive is soil. As a result of erosion that we experience here, a lot of soil is transported by water to Egypt which they arrest and use to fertilize their lands. So, it is imperative upon hon. Members to carry out education among their people about the issue of better land management and use. We must ensure that we plant trees all over the country. That will help us to come up with a more sustainable way of dealing with the issue of flooding in our country."
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