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    "id": 1488439,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1488439/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, the matter raised by the Member is key to this country and if approached from an economic point of view, we shall realise the weight it carries. Ordinarily, the tendency by farmers to produce more when there is deficit and hunger and then fail to produce the following year because they have more crop is very common. It has been understood in economics by Collingwood in his East AfricanEconomics as the buffer stop business whereby governments must then undertake to purchase the extra stocks so that we do not lose the price. Once we lose the price, farmers will not produce the following year and we shall have a drop in production and therefore high prices. That is a matter that is very important, given the fact that His Excellency the President pronounced himself on the fertiliser subsidy. This was the beginning of this production. If we do not maintain what we did with the subsidised fertilisers by making sure that we contain buffer stocks within the market in order to control prices for the farmers, farmers will not produce any more maize and we shall go back to where we were. Hon. Speaker, thank you very much."
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