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    "id": 470647,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndiema",
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        "legal_name": "Henry Tiole Ndiema",
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    "content": "Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what are the urgent steps that the Ministry has put in place to contain the threat? In respect to the outbreak, the Ministry has put in place a multi- disciplinary technical team of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, research institutions and so forth to deal with the disease. Awareness creation has been done to the public and private institutions and to farmers through the media, field days and demonstrations. The awareness efforts have been in respect of the disease history, spread and the government responses; available management options, importance of disease along maize value chain and identification of alternative food crops. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in addition, the Ministry is doing screening of germplasm and the tests that have been carried out have shown three to five promising hybrids that require more evaluation. From the selection, one outstanding hybrid which was considered for release by the Kenya Agricultural Research Foundation (KARI) under the trade name “Drought Tego” has shown some tolerance to the disease. Three; the establishment of regional screening facilities; four, investigation of epidemiology of maize lethal necrosis disease and, five, is pesticide evaluation for management. That means trying the available pesticides to see whether they can control the vector. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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