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    "id": 30346,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/30346/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
        "slug": "kabando-kabando"
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    "content": "Farm inputs like fertilizers, hoes and even jembes are a major challenge to farmers, particularly the young people who we are training through the new curriculum in the youth polytechnics in all the constituencies. Just about three or four months ago, we rolled out 2,000 instructors through my Ministry. In each of the polytechnics where we are sending instructors, we are sending one on agriculture. What are they supposed to teach? They are supposed to teach modern farming skills. They are supposed to teach beyond production; the marketing of the farm products. They are supposed to teach about maximization of the small scale farming because of the reduced sizes of land, particularly in many parts of this country, where small-scale farming dominates. But we all appreciate that the youth do not have the requisite start-up capital and they can easily be connected with an infrastructure like KFA, so that they are offered grants, soft loans or loans through the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC), which works in conjunction with KFA. This way, we will be creating a huge segment of the population - through the youth - who are going to be productive after engaging in modern agricultural technology. They will grow passion fruits. They will do as they are doing in my constituency. You saw that in the Sunday Nation ; the celebration about the tissue culture banana and the upgrade breed of pineapples. Therefore, this Motion comes in handy. I urge my colleagues, on the Government side, to support it very strongly because as Parliament, the obligation to intervene is evident through the introduction of the same. I strongly support."
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