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    "id": 788046,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/788046/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "more amendments and remove unnecessary sections. Kenya is a food-deficit country. It is important to state clearly that we can no longer depend on rain-fed agriculture. Even the livestock owners in the pastoralists areas can no longer depend on rain. We need to have dams for livestock and human use, and irrigation. The biggest rivers pass through Kenya. Today water is flowing everywhere in this country. We must borrow ideas from, say, Israel which has done a lot in terms of water harvesting. We can build dams. I am sure the Government has huge projects running, for example, the construction of Thwake Dam and many others. We really want these dams to be concluded as fast as possible, say, in the next two or three years. That way, we will even have irrigation settlements around the dams. So, this is a good piece of legislation. This Bill will set the stage for Kenya to become a food-sustainable and food-surplus country. I am sure our farmers are hardworking. All that they need are the right regulations and also to have the right infrastructure, equipment, fertiliser and financing."
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