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    "id": 1119917,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1119917/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to support the Statement by Sen. Cherargei. Any country must be able to feed its people. Sometimes food is a security issue. When we claim to be an agricultural country, which actually we are because we have all the capacity, then we must provide the right environment for our farmers to produce. When you withdraw subsidies, food production might go down and we may have to import food. That will not be good for us. Three quarters or about 70 per cent of this country is arid. With the issue of climate change, we should be moving towards dry area agriculture where we should be thinking of irrigation. That will require us to have firm policies on subsidizing food production even in those areas. I would like the committee to look at the Government policy in terms of subsidizing farmers to provide quality certified seeds and fertilizers. That way, we can invest in food production and be a food secure country. This is a very important issue, which needs to be looked at. I hope the committee will come up with very clear answers on the policy of the Government. We need to know whether there is a policy that subsidies should be withdrawn or if it is something that just happened by mistake."
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