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    "id": 1096470,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1096470/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Nasri Ibrahim",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nasri Sahal Ibrahim",
        "slug": "nasri-sahal-ibrahim"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the debate on the Irrigation (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.12 of 2021). Irrigation is a key component in sustainable food production to feed the ever-growing population. We can effectively increase food production throughout irrigation. There is need to amend the Irrigation Act, 2019 to strengthen management of irrigation matters. These amendments will encourage the best practice in irrigation and improve sustainable development through irrigation, infrastructure, investment and financing. Global warming is affecting human lives and altering water bodies. Therefore, the irrigation infrastructure in most areas should be renewed or even replaced and thus redesigned and rebuilt in order to achieve improved sustainable production. If this Bill is passed and implemented, it will lead to an increase in cultivated acreage in both the developed areas of this country and the developing ASAL areas. Some of those areas have been limited by dwindling economic activities, but they are attractive for new large-scale irrigation and drainage projects. Any increase in agricultural production will rely largely on more accurate estimations of crop-water requirements on one hand and major improvements in operations, management and performance of existing irrigation and drainage systems on the other. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Committee's recommendation, as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, on the flexibility of the appointment of the board members by the Cabinet Secretary. This will ensure that there is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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