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    "id": 67648,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/67648/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "There is also something that is bothering the farmers. They have started to feel dissatisfied. If you watched Citizen TV yesterday, farmers are changing from producing food crops to other crops. In my own constituency, one third of the farms that were under maize have been converted to passion fruit, which is being sold in Uganda. That is because our marketing is still very bad. Also, in the Citizen TV, there was a crop called Artemisia which is taking over the maize zone and if we do not watch out, we are going to lose our farming area to export crops or any other crops that can be consumed. That is because 20 per cent of the farmland is being diminished either by buildings and towns that are growing or by export crops. It is the same area that is now exporting flowers and so, unless we plan so that we secure that area and ensure that we produce food for this nation, it is going to be a disaster."
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