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    "id": 236504,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/236504/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) To improve agricultural production and food security in Bura Constituency, the Ministry is undertaking the following activities, amongst others. We have enhanced extension services by staff deployment. Six more technical staff members have been posted to the area. We are improving transport facilitation by donating to the area two motor cycles and strengthening agricultural machinery services (AMS) in Garsen Station. There is promotion of local indigenous crops through multiplication of orphan crops seeds such as sorghum, millet, cow peas, beans, green grams and cassava, which do well in the region. We have promotion of small-scale irrigation schemes and water harvesting technologies and have mobilised funding from development partners to support agricultural production. (b) The results from \"a\" are as follows. A total of 23,121 farmers have been reached through field days, training, demonstrations, farm visits, group visits, barazas and information desks. Production per unit area for various horticultural crops has increased. Surface water basin and ridges have been established on ten acres in Godhia Catchment Area. A total of 22 small- holder irrigation schemes have been introduced, increasing the area under food crops from 314 hectares in 2002 to 505 in 2005 outside the Bura Irrigation Scheme. A total of 836 farmers in eight common interest groups, commonly known as CIGs, received a sum of Kshs902,633 from the Kenya Agricultural Productivity Project (KAPP) for promotion of farming opportunities. (c) The Ministry has spent a total of Kshs14,479,614 in the constituency in the last three years."
}