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    "id": 1371394,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1371394/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "His Excellency the President",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 168,
        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
        "slug": "uhuru-kenyatta"
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    "content": "To achieve efficiency, transparency and accuracy in fertiliser distribution, we enrolled farmers on a digital register, with accurate details of the location and acreage of their agricultural landholdings. This database enabled us to implement an e-voucher system through which farmers received their fertiliser consignments for planting and top-dressing of maize, tea, coffee, rice, potatoes, cotton, edible oil crops and sugarcane across the country. Our farmers are the best people to speak about the success of the fertiliser programme. Yesterday, I spoke to several farmers in different parts of the country. Ms Alice Nato, a single mother in a place called ‘Milo’ in Bungoma told me that the Ksh2,500 fertiliser had doubled the yield on her farm from 52 bags of maize last year to 120 bags this year. Another farmer, Mr Albert Munyi from Embu appreciated the impact the fertiliser subsidy had on his farm, and asked me to work out a way that the fertiliser can be delivered closer to farmers rather than at the Kenya National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) depots. I assured him that I will work with the Governor of Embu and all governors to actualise his proposal for him and other farmers who believe the same. However, it was Mr Samuel Chacha of Kuria, who graphically painted the picture of the transformation the fertiliser subsidy has done in his farm with a phrase that stuck in my mind. He simply told me: “Mr President, shambayangu inametameta.”"
}