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    "content": "which need assistance to perform well around the world, so that we can get foreign exchange until we find oil or other things that can do that work for us. I would, therefore, like to mention to the Ministry that, for example, their agricultural machines do not work. I have had an experience with that. I once asked for them and they were parked outside my gate for about three months and after that I was sent a bill. They did not do any work. That saga continues. I am requesting the Ministry to encourage farmers to do a better job in the more endowed areas. The areas which experience some rain have their difficulties. Right now, when there is less rain and there is no irrigation, they cannot produce even the food that they normally contribute to the national grid. We must continue to concentrate on ASAL areas, but I am afraid, I do not see enough being done in these other areas that should encourage production of immediate use. Furthermore, I have noticed that the Ministry, of course, does what it can to respond when we have farming. So, we end up buying maize from South Africa, Mozambique and all over the world, but the maize in Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia districts is rotting. Could we, perhaps, assist our own farmers first? I know that you have done whatever you could with fertilizer to help them, but, please, buy their crops first. Buy Kenyan maize first! I head a Ministry which carries science and research technology. Our universities carry out research, but we do not utilize them. We should utilize their research. These issues fall under the science and technology as well. The Ministry works with us in KARI, but we could do a little more to improve on our own agriculture. I wish there was more time to talk about climate change because, indeed, climate change is not peculiar to Kenya. We have to do whatever we can to plant more trees and save the forests that we have. However, let us understand that there is a phenomenon called climate change. We need to address that globally with other people lest we get locked up in a cocoon of blaming each other all the time when, in fact, the original reason for the climate change comes from the developed countries."
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