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    "id": 1184273,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1184273/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tetu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Mwangi",
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    "content": "are energetic and knowledgeable have all abandoned farming. Therefore, the future of food security in this country is bleak. So, we must start addressing this matter. The Government must take farmers seriously when farmers say they cannot sell their maize because they feel the prices are low. We must see what to do to ensure that farmers sell their maize profitably as the only way of incentivising them to continue to produce food for the rest of the country. Therefore, I ask the Government to look at what is going on in the market with a view to increasing the prices, where possible, so that our farmers are not disadvantaged. When the prices are right, they will deliver the maize to the market and there will be food sufficiency in the country. On the matter of GMOs, depending on who you talk to, so much is said such that today you might be a believer in GMO and tomorrow you are not. We come from different professional backgrounds. We have accountants, marketers and many other professionals and yet, we are all attempting to discuss a subject matter of very deep scientific nature. As a country, we probably need to lock up some scientists in a room so that they can deliberate on the matter amongst themselves until they give us either white or black smoke on the safety of GMO food products. That way, we can have a unified stand that is not politically aligned so that I do not talk about the positives or negatives of GMO food products depending on the side of the political divide I stand. I would want to speak about it based on empirical evidence of whether or not there are any issues to do with the safety of GMO food products. A casual look at the food market, however, reveals that there are thing that we are already consuming and there is nothing that has empirically been substantiated against GMO."
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