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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy to note that my Ministry, alongside other agricultural sector Ministries, have now agreed on the need to shift our agriculture from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation or irrigated agriculture. This will be the agriculture of the 21st Century. At the moment, we are using less than 1 per cent of all the water that we get in this country for food production. About 99.9 per cent of all the water that we receive still goes to the ocean and lakes. Let me answer the question that may be in the minds of many people. We have rolled out a comprehensive and ambitious programme to irrigate one million acres in five years, starting with the programme of 40,000 acres that was launched this year in Tana River. The question that many people are asking is: “Do we have the water to do this ambitious programme of one million acres?” When we have irrigated one million acres, we will be using less than 20 per cent of all the water. About 80 per cent of the water will still be left to go to the ocean, sea and lakes. Therefore, we have what it takes to reach there."
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