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    "id": 1498890,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498890/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you. I really want to congratulate the Cabinet Secretary because I think he has come out well in trying to answer what the Government is doing to enhance the performance of agriculture and also considering the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) of our economy. Hon. Deputy Speaker, he has spoken quite a lot about canola and my constituency is the largest producer of canola in Meru County. I think it is among the top producers of canola in the country. However, I have never felt the effect of the Ministry in terms of that crop. I urge the Cabinet Secretary that we need to feel the presence of the Ministry on that product because it is expanding and we are encouraging farmers, even small-scale farmers, to enhance productivity. He has spoken about so many packages or products, but he has not spoken on the delivery of agricultural extension personnel and yet, there is a total deficiency. If we leave this to the counties, they have no capacity. There is a lot the Ministry is doing, but to get that product and information training to the farmers, we lack agricultural extension officers. They are going to do double-work in terms of crops and livestock. I expected to hear him talk more on what the Government is doing in terms of the feeding programmes in the dairy sector. Currently, there are so many types of grass that are drought-resistant. It is in plenty, but the Ministry..."
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