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    "id": 184316,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/184316/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Shaban",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
        "slug": "naomi-shaban"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government has created a specific Ministry, the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands, that will deal with the challenges faced in these areas, especially in the area of food security. Under the new Ministry is the Arid Lands Resource Management Programme that is funded by the World Bank, and one of its main aims is to improve the food security situation by addressing the non-food interventions necessary to improve food security. As I have already mentioned, the project now covers 28 districts in Arid and Semi-Arid lands. It should be noted that achieving food security in the country is a task that has to be undertaken by various Ministries. Other measures being put in place by the Government to improve food security in the country include boosting of the strategic grain reserves from the current four million bags to six million bags, and to eight million bags by the year 2009/2010, the provision of inputs through the Ministry of Agriculture, intensive extension activities through field days, agricultural shows and demonstrations amongst farmers; the Government is in the process importing 1.5 million bags to meet any shortfall of maize this year, facilitate the National Cereals and Produce Board to import fertiliser---"
}