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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kisoi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Manthi Kisoi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance. I want on the outset to support the Report. Agriculture is one of the key sectors in this country that immensely contributes to the economy of this country especially in terms of job creation and when you come to issues of food production and sufficiency. This is a very vital Report and first I want to commend the Mediation Committee because under the new Constitution, the spirit of consensus is highly emphasized in matters where there seems to be some kind of disharmony. Therefore, our brothers and sisters in the Senate, this was actually a very good spirit. This will give a long view of viable options in terms of how to address issues of food production, sufficiency and matters that are pertaining to this sector. You know that in this country sometimes we have been relying on very casual and short term measures of addressing certain issues. I think this Report has tried to ventilate across certain areas that are very key especially touching on issues like cost of production which will be very key when this Report is adopted. When you look at the issues that have been mentioned in that Report they are very quite significant. This is because if we are talking of the cost of production, which is quite fundamental in terms of sustaining our food sufficiency, we will take note of the advisory board. It will have a very critical function in this country in terms of giving advisory services which in turn will give proper guidance on how things ought to be administered in a proper systematic and procedural way without doing things haphazardly as we used to do in the past. It is also quite commendable and certain recommendations that we are looking at as a country is to stop being over dependent on imports, especially in certain areas which even within The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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