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"content": "I am very proud to be a farmerâs daughter. I was a farmerâs daughter when farming used to mean something. At that time, my parents were able to take me to school to quite a high level. I do not think the same can be said of farmers right now. Farming is not able to give farmers enough to provide for their children and to also meet all their needs. This is basically because a lot has changed over the years. I would like to say that the role of extension services has not been effective. If farming is going to make sense in this country and be taken as a business, then we must ensure that we provide farmers with extension services. We know that there are so many people who are employed under the Ministry of Agriculture, but that they are not actually making a lot of difference on the ground because they are not providing services to the farmers. We want farmers to take it as a business. We went the extension services to provide information and knowledge to those farmers, so that whether they are growing maize or flowers, they will get value for their efforts at the end of the day. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am also quite pleased that we are moving from rain-based agriculture to irrigation-based agriculture. As we have all said, there is a large part of this country that is not exploited that could produce all the food that we need in this country. As has already been indicated, food security is a major problem that we have in this country. In the 21st Century, in a country such as this, we should not be talking about not having enough food for our people. At the moment, that is the sad situation that we find ourselves in. we hope as the Minister has promised us that within the next five years, that will be a thing of the past because all our ASAL areas will have been exploited."
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