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    "id": 1569737,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1569737/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Raso",
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    "content": "Agriculture officers are the front-line scientists. Wherever you find extension officers are active, it does not matter whether they are in livestock or agriculture, you will see significant improvement in food production, involvement of farmers, motivation, and identification of diseases much faster. Extension officers are quickly able to tell that a fall in food production within a particular area is because of using this or that fertiliser or because of these or those insects that are destroying that crop. We are also aware that in the olden days, agricultural officers came up with pilot schemes, animal vaccination centres to help in fighting diseases, but at the same time, to help in food production. In this Bill, what I want to request from the sponsor is to quickly identify the baseline between the roles of the national and county governments. We cannot say the county is also part of it, and the national Government is part of it, and then we pass a law that nobody is responsible for in terms of policy or implementation. In that case, we are constituting boards, and we are giving people Chief Executive Officer jobs in vain. We cannot be wasting public resources when we are seeing it right in front of our eyes. With the problem of global warming and climate change, are we keeping up with the tide? A greater part of this country’s economy depends on agriculture. Looking around us, as Professor Maathai Wangari once said, when things around you are dying, just know you will be next. That is the effect of climate change and global warming. We are among the countries in the Global South that are likely to be immensely affected by long droughts, floods and short heavy rains where farmers will not even have time to plant. For that reason, we must come up with clever strategies for posterity so that this country does not suffer. All generations that will come after us must enjoy their lives and feel proud to live in this great country."
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