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    "id": 788075,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/788075/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "on rain-fed agriculture. The Committee agreed with the management that it will turn some of those farms into irrigation schemes. They are willing. The ADC has a lot of land. The Corporation will be able to plant crops twice because of the good weather of this country. They can plant crops twice per year so that we can have enough food. I can see Hon. Janet Nangabo looking at me because that is her area. That is because of irrigation. Ask her and she will tell you that there is a lot of land lying fallow in Trans Nzoia. I believe if we get irrigation and put our act together and have proper infrastructure in place, we can have pivot irrigation in those places so that we can have two crops per year. We can plant maize twice per year and talk to the seed producing agents and companies like Kenya Seed Company which are willing to develop seeds for food crops to be planted twice a year because of irrigation. We should forget over-reliance on rain-fed agriculture and move on to irrigation. We will have irrigation systems and food shortages will be cured in this country once and for all. With those few remarks, I support this Bill. I hope the House will move fast to have it passed, so that we have everything else together. We are now transforming the National Irrigation Board into an Authority. As proposed, that Authority will have expanded mandate to deal with irrigation in this country and cure food shortages. Thank you so much."
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