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    "id": 250150,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/250150/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Maathai",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 226,
        "legal_name": "Wangari Muta Maathai",
        "slug": "wangari-maathai"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. Cotton is one of the many cash crops that our people grow. Unfortunately, many of the crops that were planted in the hope that they would make our people rich or improve the quality of their lives have not achieved what the farmers had hoped for. Unfortunately, cotton farmers, like coffee, tea and sugar-cane farmers, continue to suffer, mostly because we have not, as a country, May 4, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 971 invested in adding value to these crops. We do not sell to the advanced markets our raw materials. I would like to emphasise the fact that many farmers plant cash crops on most of their land and they are left with very little land on which to grow food crops. In many areas, farmers move to the river beds. I want to emphasise that we do a lot of damage to our river beds as farmers grow food crops along the rivers. We should pay attention to the fact that right now, as we speak, our people in the Coast are suffering from floods. We are having floods at a very high rate because we have destroyed out water sheds. We have said many times in this House that when we destroy our water sheds, especially our forested mountains, and allow our farmers to cultivate along the river beds and along the steep slopes---"
}