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    "id": 784169,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 611,
        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to also contribute to this very timely Bill. This Bill seeks to provide a framework that will promote food production in the country. I support this Bill but I wish it could have concentrated on food production. Many of my colleagues have talked about a framework of funding systems that can enable this country to produce food. I am also of the opinion that we concentrate on a system that can enable people in this country to produce food. As a country, we also need to concentrate on facilitating farmers and funding mechanisms that can enable them to produce food by allocating money for irrigation where we do not have water and exploring ways of getting water by either digging dams, drilling boreholes or harvesting rain water. Whatever means we use, it will ensure farmers have water for irrigation. It is not only water but we can also look at how to help farmers prepare themselves to plant their crops using the short rains. We have received a lot of rains after a long dry season but I can assure you in many counties, not even 10 per cent of farmers have planted any crop because they had not prepared themselves. We need to look at the component of preparedness of our farmers. We need to strengthen the Meteorological Department for them to give citizens information to enable them prepare themselves. It is not only information of when it will rain like the way we told two weeks ago. We were just told: “It will rain”, and not many citizens got the information. We need to strengthen the Meteorological Department to relay the information to wananchi in every vernacular station and prepare them on how much rain is expected and at what time. This way, they will understand the information and prepare themselves adequately. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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