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    "id": 728894,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/728894/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "March 30, 2017 SENATE DEBATES 17 Sen. Karaba",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries very much for issuing the statement this time round. I hope that whatever he has given or tabled in this House is being implemented. Going by the answer given, I am afraid that the production of rice has gone down by a half. It is therefore suggested that more than half of the population is suffering because that is the only crop grown in Mwea. They do not do mixed farming but only rice. I wanted to know, through the Chair, whether the Government can consider waiving some of the costs for the farmers so that they can survive because natural calamities like shortage of water have persisted for a long time. As of now there is hunger and people do not have food because of the drought. This is because they mainly rely on rice as a food crop. I do not know whether the Government will provide food to the starving Mwea farmers now that drought has persisted for that long. Secondly, from the answer that my friend Senator for Meru has given, it appears that the Government has been assisting which is true. But today, the problem---"
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