{"id":62161,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/62161/?format=json","text_counter":350,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"experience in production of fertilizers, so that we move this country forward. You all know that a country like Malawi is now food secure. I have been to Malawi. I was actually there with my good friend, Dr. Otichilo, when he was a very big man somewhere in this country. We did some work on the issues of remote sensing and mapping in that country. That is a very poor country. Recently, the President of that country, hon. Mutharika came up with a policy of subsidising farmers through seeds and fertilizers. That country has now a GDP growth of over seven per cent because of subsidising their farmers. So, the issue of food deficit is no longer an issue in Malawi, but a larger economy like Kenya has food deficiency. Kenya is the tenth largest economy in Africa. We import food year in, year out. We are not doing our people good service."}