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    "id": 729978,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/729978/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nooru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2238,
        "legal_name": "Adan Mohamed Nooru",
        "slug": "adan-mohamed-nooru"
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    "content": "At the expense of agriculture, we have given priority and preference to infrastructure, energy, education and health. In as much as education is important, can a hungry child go to a class and learn? We do not think about food security in this country. Kenya is signatory to the Maputo Declaration where it was agreed that 10 per cent of the GDP in any country should go to agriculture. Today, less than 0.5 per cent has been allocated to agriculture even though there is the devolution aspect which came with the new constitutional dispensation that agriculture is devolved. As much as these other sectors are devolved, priorities and preferences are given to infrastructure which got over Kshs100 billion and education which got almost 50 per cent of total Budget. Agriculture is a production sector which services the entire economy and Ministries in charge of security and defence. We have got our priorities totally wrong. I have been raising this matter, but I always get the answer that agriculture is devolved. But as much as it is devolved, how much do the counties allocate to the sector? Nobody knows. It can be zero, 1 or 2 per cent. There is no coordination in terms of allocations to this sector. The Jubilee Government came up with very good policies in terms of diverting agriculture from rain-fed to irrigation. But a policy without resources being allocated does not serve any purpose. The Jubilee Government promised Kenyans that they would irrigate one million acres of the ASAL lands. In our high potential areas and bread baskets of this country, the land and soils are being unproductive. We have been using fertilisers of any kind. Acidity is 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."
}