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    "id": 1569731,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1569731/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": "few extension officers have no money for facilitation and no means of transport to access the remotest areas. Most of our farmers are in the remotest areas where even the road network is very poor. This Bill is coming at a time when we need it the most. Extension officers are the ones who organise the workshops, with the administration at our chiefs' areas, to give capacity to farmers. Today, the Government is putting in a lot of money to construct industrial parks. We have one in Busia, almost complete. We needed to have these extension officers on the ground within these areas to educate the farmers, to do advocacy, to encourage them on what plants, like in Busia, to plant palm oil, simsim and groundnuts. We are going to complete the industrial parks, and we shall not have the by- products for value addition to create employment opportunities. We have too many young people who have graduated from the Sigalagala National Polytechnic and all the vocational and national polytechnics from across the country. They are jobless, and yet there is a lot of potential. We must be deliberate on this, and we must support this Bill. We must follow this function with resources. Otherwise, approving this Bill and not giving money to operationalise it will be a cause in vain. Thank you. I support."
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