{"id":90817,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/90817/?format=json","text_counter":110,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Obure","speaker_title":"The Minister for Public Works","speaker":{"id":118,"legal_name":"Christopher Mogere Obure","slug":"christopher-obure"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, funds allocated for water harvesting and irrigation are inadequate in many respects. I feel that the Ministry of Agriculture should rely less and less on rain fed agriculture. We should go into irrigation in a big way. We should allocate more funds, as Parliament, to ensure that the Ministry of Agriculture engages more in water harvesting to guarantee food sufficiency."}