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    "id": 1158885,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1158885/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndwiga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njeru Ndwiga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join my colleagues in congratulating Sen. Khaniri for bringing this very important Statement to this House. Kenya prides itself as an agricultural country. However, it is very sad that we call ourselves an agricultural country, but do not put in place measures to support that objective. At the moment, on matters concerning weather, we rely on information from other countries. Thank God the world is what it is today. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when our own weather department tells us that we are going to have more than average rainfall, most of the time, you do not get any rain. Most importantly, we need to know when that rain will come. It is very sad that even as we pass Bills in this House supporting agriculture, the planning is very poor. If you cannot plan on the parameters that will support that agriculture, all the Bills that we pass here and everything else that we do will be in vain. It is sad that in this country, there are areas that are affected by bad weather and we have famine. As a result, people have to sell their livestock and we have to supply relief food to more than three quarters of this country. We have time to plan, but this time is not used well. This country has not adequately planned for proper agriculture. It is very sad and I do not know what will happen next year and in the years to come. Currently, fertilizer is not available in this country because of a small issue in Ukraine and Russia. The fertilizer that we manage to export here is so expensive that poor farmers will not afford to use it to plant the food that we need in this country. Fertilizer is unaffordable in this country. You cannot ask farmers to buy a bag of fertilizer for Kshs6,000 and expect them to produce food for this country and you know the market value of that food."
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