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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. Probably, this is one of the most important pieces of legislation that this Parliament is going to be required to pass. It brings a new dawn in food security issues in this country. If you look at the President’s Big Four Agenda, you will realize that one of them is food security. This country has failed to deliver food security on the basis of rain-fed agriculture. Therefore, it is important that we move away from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation. In this country, we have a lot of water that runs off when it rains. We also have many rivers which carry away a lot of water whenever it rains. However, all that water goes to waste. We have not been able to tap it. We have the National Irrigation Board, but I am glad that it is being repealed in this new law and that, instead, there will be established an Authority that will take over the management of irrigation in this country. Suffice it to say that the Board has been a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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