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    "content": "This includes seeds treatment combined with foliar application alone, and so on, and so forth. These are experiments to try to find out how to deal with the disease. Number six is treatment of disease and also, seven, capacity building and screening of seeds and surveillance. Number eight is that the Ministry was also reviewing crop protection law to strengthen enforcement of local quarantine. Finally, there are efforts to work with the manufactures of pesticides in order to find out which pesticides can be used because so far, no conclusive data has been generated on which pesticides can work best. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of compensation to the affected families, as to whether the disease causes a threat, I wish to confirm that the disease, indeed, causes a threat to national food security and farmers in the affected areas have been encouraged to diversify. On the Ministry’s plan to provide relief to the farmers, the Government has put in place programmes in the affected areas to provide subsidized seeds and fertilizers over the last five years. The package consisting of maize seeds, Basel and top dressing fertilizers, stalk borer and storage weevils dusting chemicals. Two, in many parts of the country, farmers plant maize for food. Through the traditional high value crops programme, promotion and provision of subsidized alternative planting materials such as beans, sweet potatoes, cassava, Irish potatoes, cowpeas and green peas have been done. In 2012, the subsidized materials issued by the Government had a total value of Kshs306 million. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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