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    "content": "“Implement, as a matter of urgency, the CAADP and evolving action plans for agricultural development at the national, regional and continental levels. To this end, the heads of state and government agreed to adopt sound policies for agricultural and rural development and committed themselves to allocating, at least, 10 per cent of the total national budgetary resource for their implementation within five years.” It is crystal clear! The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance must learn to listen to the people. It must learn to respect what has been agreed to in all those international fora. It must see the need, and if they cannot see the need, then they still have a problem. I want to tell them and educate them mathematically so that they know: If you want to have economic growth and you have one seed of beans, you have a chance of getting about 110 seeds; that is 110 per cent growth if you want to calculate it that way. We can only grow in this country if we respect agriculture; if we respect funding and agriculture. This is the backbone of our oversight role. We have looked at it! We look at it left and right but when this funding has come down from the initial 13 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s, now we are at that Ministry of Agriculture which is theoretically having a high percentage but practically having 1.99 cent. Then there is not much we can achieve, and that includes their salaries. That also includes their vehicles which are aging, financing the heavy load of 254 districts. I do not know how they do it but 254 districts will require massive resources."
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