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    "id": 175449,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/175449/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kinjanjui",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 48,
        "legal_name": "Lee Maiyani Kinyanjui",
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    "content": "3992 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 10, 2008 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to say that as a nation, we need to have a strategic plan on agriculture. I realise that a lot of the vegetables currently being consumed in many parts of Europe and the United States of America (USA) come from Kenya. We are doing very well in floriculture, although we have seen of late, some investors moving from Kenya to Ethiopia and other countries because we lack proper incentives to motivate them. If the money we allocated this year for the importation of maize and other foodstuffs was used proactively to motivate the farmers by giving them free or subsidized planting seeds and fertilizer, we would have tripled the production we expected and, therefore, be able to export the surplus. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, I would like to add my voice to the fact that we have had many Sessional Papers, for example, the one of 1965 and other Sessional Papers which sought to increase food production in this country. Despite the beautiful and sometimes admirable papers and theories on how we can improve agriculture in this country, there is very little on the ground. This year is a testimony to that fact. I wish we could transform all the good theories and research papers we have had over the years into something that we can show for our country. With those few comments, I would like to support this Motion."
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