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    "id": 518326,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even cart flower is irrigated under highly capital intensive conditions. As you know, it is one crop which has not been amenable to small holder production or out growers whereas, other crops which are equally amenable to irrigation like tea were the first to be amenable to out growers. Therefore, that economy was extended successfully to small peasantry through the Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we know, full well, that it will take a very long time for our peasant based agriculture to move from rain-fed agriculture to irrigated agriculture, unless there is heavy State investment in irrigation for the production of maize. Currently, there is a project in Tana River Delta or thereabouts for intensive irrigation for the production of food crops. However, like all Jubilee Government projects, they tend to falter at child birth. That has been a dream rather than a reality. It is part and parcel of what we call huge capital intensive projects established more for rent seeking rather than for realisation of those projects. 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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