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    "id": 754124,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/754124/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, His Excellency the President has reiterated his commitment to food security in this country several times. Indeed, during his Madaraka Day Speech, when we were celebrating the Golden Jubilee, he indicated that he wants to commit one million acres of land under irrigation. The irrigation of one million acres of land cannot give high productivity unless we have fertiliser. Fertiliser contributes about 60 per cent of the farm inputs and we salute the Kenya Government for her efforts in subsidizing that key commodity when it comes to farming. Unfortunately, that benefit does not reach the common mwananchi on the ground. We realise that farmers prepare the fields early enough in advance as they wait for the rains. In research, there is a technique called trend analysis. Our forefathers could know what time of the year the rains would come. So, they prepared those fields in advance so that when the rainy season came, the fields would be ready. They procured fertilisers on time so that they could plant. Unfortunately, you cannot predict when this rain will come. So, for you to be assured of the high yields, you have to make sure that at that particular time of the rain, all the key inputs must be available and fertiliser being one of them."
}