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    "id": 38740,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/38740/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. On 31st May, hon. Nyamweya requested a Ministerial Statement regarding availability of seed from Kenya Seed Company. The Kenya Seed Company is the main seed maize producing company in the country with an estimated market share of 85 per cent. I wish to assure the House that, while we experienced a deficit of seed in the country last season due to drought and planning error on the part of Kenya Seed Company, we have now made arrangements to ensure that such a situation is not repeated. We have also instructed the Kenya Seed Company to expand the area under irrigation to mitigate the cases of drought, so that we do not depend on rainfed seed production. We are in the process of assisting Kenya Seed Company to contract more land from ADC or acquire more land to breed seed to boost commercial seed production. The total number of farmers contracted by Kenya Seed Company to grow seed maize during the Year 2011/2012 is 250, and they are covering 42,318.50 acres. I hereby table the list."
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