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    "id": 909994,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/909994/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 761,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Adan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13418,
        "legal_name": "Adan Hajj Ali",
        "slug": "adan-haji-ali"
    },
    "content": "While we continue to probe the estimates for the Financial Year 2019/2020, the Committee observed that the State Department for Crop Development was allocated Kshs21.8 which is a reduction of 6.7 per cent from allocation of the previous year. The Department is implementing the three programmes which were aforementioned. The recurrent allocation for the Department was at Kshs3.89billion in 2019 which is an increase of Kshs600million. It is equivalent to Kshs18.3 per cent from an allocation of Kshs3.3billion in the Financial Year 2018/2019. There is a change of policy and thinking by the Executive in terms of fertiliser subsidy and the Strategic Food Reserve (SFR) maize purchase for the Financial Year 2019/2020. The Government seeks to raise money from the proceeds of the sale they will make this year of about kshs4million bags which is estimated to be about Kshs9.6billion. Kshs5billion was allocated this year to National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) to purchase maize from farmers but up to November only Kshs400,000 million was used to purchase maize. So, there was a balance of Kshs3billion in the account of the SFR. That together with the proceeds from what they will sell from these current maize sales, it is estimated that NCPB will have enough money to purchase maize next year. That is why they were not provided with any money in the Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 2019/2020. 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."
}