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    "id": 152832,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/152832/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this House facilitated my Ministry and the Ministry Higher Education Science and Technology, with the passage of the Biosafety Bill. With the passage of this law, we now have enough latitude to be able to do extensive research to establish better varieties of all manner of categories of seeds; be it cassava, millet, maize, beans or sorghum where, we are able to access the potential of our dry land area. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to assure Members here that the policy and legislative framework provided by the Biosafety Bill are going to benefit this country to a great extent because our researchers now, with the backing of the law, can do research and conclude what had already been done so that we can access the benefits of scientific knowledge and technology to carry out and enhance farming in dry land areas. Secondly, for marginal areas; arid and semi arid, it is the policy of the Government now that we should bring those areas under production through provision of water for irrigation. Lastly, we will continuously review our policy positions to be in tandem with the needs of the farmers in those areas and in-put all the stakeholders' ideas on what needs to be done so that we can effectively use our dry land areas for the production of food."
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