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    "id": 90838,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/90838/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kosgey",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 177,
        "legal_name": "Henry Kiprono Kosgey",
        "slug": "henry-kosgey"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, agriculture ranks second after education as a sector that the Government should put more money in. This is the only way we can achieve food security in this country. For a very a long time in Kenya, we have had cycles of drought and food insecurity in certain areas. This has almost become a permanent fixture; it is not a tenable situation. It is now almost 47 years after Independence; by now, we should have established methods of ensuring that no Kenyan starves. Quite often we have talked of irrigation as the answer to our food security. We should no longer depend or rely on rain-fed agriculture. I am surprised that the amount of money allocated to irrigation is so insignificant. I am told it is in another Ministry. As stated by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, it should be in the Ministry of Agriculture. This Ministry has been allocated Kshs18.9 billion. This amount is, indeed, insufficient. I agree with the Minister that more money should be allocated to this Ministry, particularly if we want to achieve our food security. We can only implement the policies that have been laid out in the Ministry of Agriculture if we allocate them more funds."
}