{"id":116295,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/116295/?format=json","text_counter":402,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":376,"legal_name":"Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona","slug":"millie-odhiambo-mabona"},"content":"“If you ask most agricultural scientists to list our natural resources, they will probably answer soil, water and air. Yet, there is a fourth resource that for many years has received scant attention. It is germ-plasm; the natural resource that makes earth unique in so far as we know it in our solar system.” As I have indicated herbal medicine forms part of germ-plasm as a plant genetic resource. Plant genetic resources are very vital for human survival because they are what form the core of food security in the world and they are a source for medicinal plants all over the world."}