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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have just come from a country that has a population of about 1.1 billion people. This country feeds its people and is able to export the surplus. This country which is India is the largest democracy in the world. I have a feeling that we can do the same. If the exercise of building six dams and reviving eight irrigation schemes will be properly co-ordinated, it will increase food production substantially. On the same note, we can do irrigation using water from River Chala. The Coast Development Authority (CDA) has already done studies and written reports which have not been implemented. The studies done by the CDA and experts from Israel indicate that we can use water from River Chala at the rate of 200 million litres per day and the level would have dropped by one-eighth within 20 years. The researchers were confident that we could irrigate the drier parts of Taveta, Kwale and Kilifi districts and still have enough water for domestic use. Studies have also been done on the Galana River whose water flows into the Indian Ocean. Again, we can construct a dam and irrigate the drier parts Ganze which is my constituency. I believe that since the President has underlined the need for irrigation, there will be expansion in this area after the six dams and the eight irrigation schemes are completed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President touched on a very sensitive issue during his Address to the House. That is the youth and unemployment. We have many youths who are well educated. I do not have the statistics, but a good number has undertaken postgraduate studies. Even my constituency, which has earned a dubious title"
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