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    "id": 1179408,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1179408/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I am saying this because agriculture is the backbone of our economy. Since our days in school, we were told this is an agriculturally based economy and that agriculture is the backbone of our economy. If something has gone wrong with our economy, then, it has everything to do with what has gone wrong with our agricultural sector. That is why it was important to have a national policy and a sessional paper that speaks to how the Government intends to make agriculture pay farmers – as we said - from the bottom-up. I want to assure Members that, indeed, this Sessional Paper speaks to some of the issues that were well articulated in the Kenya Kwanza Manifesto; things that are already being done in terms of facilitating farmers to access cheaper inputs through the subsidised fertiliser programme that has already started, and farmers in many parts of this country who enjoyed the short rains have benefited from this program."
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