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    "content": "crops without carrying out any survey or soil tests to know which areas are suitable for that. I am sure that, that is going to help in the farm produce. I also hope that the extension services are going to be intensified like in the past. Extension officers would move around on bicycles and motorbikes helping farmers to manage their farms. If the Minister had time, I would take her to see what is happening in my area. The people, in an effort to do their work very quickly on whatever small holdings they have, would go and dig some pits and put ten mahindis in one hole, and also put beans and cowpeas. Since we have a lot of rain all the year round, when those crops are coming up, they look very green. But when they grow to about two feet, they all change colour and flower. They do not harvest. They keep on doing that every year because they must be seen to be working. They do not look at the output. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is something that I have been thinking of handling. After elections, I think I will take up the business of going to show them so that they can do proper planting. You can plant beans separately. Where you plant maize, you can get a proper yield that can sustain the people both for domestic and for sale. It is possible. The spirit of the Bill is quite good and I hope that, over time, we will be able to maximize on the production on our farms. After all, we say that agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. Apart from the things that we are looking for, and which we are still not very sure of--- The discoveries that we are making--- But what we are sure about is what we have lived with and that is farms and farm produce. With those few remarks, I support."
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