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    "id": 1201092,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1201092/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I doubt that I have any more information than I left with when I went to sit down but I thank my brother for the effort. We had a plan as well for reduction of the cost of living. We believe there is an alternative path to reducing the cost of living and especially the cost of food. We have had occasion to have conversations with farmers in the Rift Valley and they pointed out that the problem has largely been, one, the reliance of rain-fed agriculture which has become very unreliable given the scourge of climate change. Number two, in fact, certain practices, mainly corruption within the food industry have dissuaded many farmers from planting their crop. They sometimes end up with a good harvest but are unable to market it because there are senior people within the Republic, who then take up the quota that was to be allocated to these farmers. I also believe that if we wanted to ensure food security, we need to move away from rain-fed agriculture. We want to see a plan on irrigation, especially the revival of projects that had collapsed, including the ones in Tana River, Galana Kulalu and others, to ensure food security. We have a lot of problems with the proposal that we have heard from the Government side of introducing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as a way of ensuring food security. In other jurisdictions, whenever there is a controversy that"
}