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    "id": 823568,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/823568/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Aldai, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cornelly Serem",
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        "legal_name": "Cornelly Serem",
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    "content": "As a country, we have a large group of young men and women with no jobs. If we utilised this sector, our young men and women could be employed to support their families. As a country, we cannot every single day say that this country relies on farming yet we are doing less to assist farmers. If we look at the budgets of the last three years, agriculture received the minimal allocation on key sectors that require funding in relation to output. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I encourage our colleagues to support this Motion so that farmers are compensated so that in the event there is drought, it is not only one region that is compensated. It cannot be coffee farmers only. It cannot be other areas that get compensation while people just think about tourists when we discuss coast region. Not everybody is in the tourism sector. Farmers should be assisted. I want all Members to support this Motion so that farmers can see the importance of engaging themselves in this activity, which is important to all of us – not only farmers in the Coast but all stakeholders, including all consumers, of which I am one of them. I am not saying I should be given any favour because I am one of them. I feel that farmers in the Coast should be given an opportunity. They have been marginalised for many years. When we talk about Coast, it is always stories about tourism. There also should be a good story about farming in Coast."
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