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    "content": "when partners, instead of talking to each other, started talking at each other: When power gets to our heads, we stop playing with the full deck of cards and we start hiding the dangerous ones under the table. Those times and symptoms have started manifesting themselves in this Grand Coalition. I think we must do everything within our powers to ensure that we do not fall into the trap that led to the fall and disintegration of the NARC. Indeed, the challenges that lie ahead of us are very heavy. When you look at the food insecurity of this nation, a country whose 80 per cent of its population derives a living from agriculture, a country that has fertile soils and enough rain but cannot feed its self, we have a problem. When we look at other countries that are less endowed than our country like Malawi, if they are able to feed themselves, reverse the situation from a food-insecure nation to a food-secure nation and to even export food, we must ask ourselves why we have not been able to do this. I recognize the efforts that the Government has made so far and I must congratulate the President and the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Samoei. Last year, I think if there was one issue I fought for, and many of us from the bread basket area of Kenya fought for, was the issue of fertilizer. When the high cost of inputs skyrocketed from Kshs2,000 to almost Kshs6,000 farmers were unable to access fertilizer. This year when we went on recess, the President himself together with the Minister for Agriculture came to the bread basket of Kenya and delivered fertilizer at a subsidized price of Kshs2,500. On behalf of the farmers of this country, when a Government performs, we must salute them. For the first time, as farmers, we have had fertilizer in time. We had seed in time. In fact, we had to wait for the rains. This year, I believe, farmers have ploughed more than ever before but we must look at a more long-term solution where we do not keep importing food and fertilizer. We have proposed time and again, and I had expected the President would address this in his Speech that we will, in the near future, have a fertilizer factory in Kenya. This will be a long-term solution to the constant problem of lack of or high cost of inputs."
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