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    "id": 940821,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/940821/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kirinyaga Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Munene Wambugu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13382,
        "legal_name": "John Munene Wambugu",
        "slug": "john-munene-wambugu"
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    "content": "Further to this, we all know one of the Big Four Agenda is Food Security. When talking about food security, we must start from the basics. How do we ensure we have food security in this country? If we do not take care of our farmers or take measures to encourage many people to go into farming, we will not achieve food security fully. We need to make it a lucrative venture such that everybody does not need a white-collar job. That is why we need to start encouraging formation of these organisations. Also, we all know that we need a national body and that is why the Mover of this Motion has said KENAFF should be given funds and supported so that we can create a database of all the farmers in this country. This will enable farmers from certain regions to know we depend on them. After considering the rainfall and weather of their area they ought to grow certain food crops and limit themselves from growing everything. Depending on the weather of a certain region we can state the kind of food crops or cash crops they will grow so that we can know how much food is produced. I believe food production in Kenya is not numerically documented. We normally assume we have maybe 4,000 or 10,000 bags of maize, but there is no clear data on how much maize or beans is produced in this country because we lack data and cooperative organisations to group farmers together. So, this Motion is very timely and it should be supported because in Kenya, whether we like it or not, as we stand now our economy depends on agriculture. We cannot continue with agriculture without having a database of farmers or assisting them to get the necessary inputs. We cannot assist them if they are not in groups, cooperatives or associations. For example, giving them inputs is very difficult. For instance, when the Cabinet Secretary in-charge of agriculture brought fertilisers for coffee farmers it was taken to cooperative societies for them to distribute. This is because it could not be given to each individual farmer because of the issue of accountability. With those few remarks, I support."
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