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    "content": "to increase food production in this country, we must also make sure that we do not forget where we have been relying upon in the past. It is about 20 per cent of this country’s land that has kept us going for the last 45 years. Abandoning them now, certainly we will have far reaching repercussions. I urge the Government to let the Irrigation Board be under the Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture needs to surrender its pieces of land so that we can put it under agricultural activities. The Ministry of Livestock Development must fully utilize its holding grounds. I come from Ndaragwa. In Ndaragwa, we have an orphaned crop; pyrethrum. Little is being done about it. We need much attention be given to this crop. We need this sector to be privatized. We need to pump in a lot of money to revive this sector. This is a crop that can earn this country a lot of foreign exchange. Fertilizers and seeds under the Biashara Kilimo Programme were given to farmers. We planted three times in our region, but we did not harvest anything. If we ask these farmers to pay back, this may be the end of it. I think it is important that the Government looks for ways of relieving this burden from the farmers, so that they do not get scared of accessing these loaning facilities when land comes about."
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