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"speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": "This matter is not just limited to tea, it cuts around all our cash crops like coffee and rice. The prices of rice are varied across the country. What is happening is that people currently take rice cheaply from farmers in Homa Bay, for instance, at Kimira-Oluch, and sell it to the bulk handlers in the areas where the prices are high. I agree and emphasise that as he goes back, we are looking at the major issue of harmonisation of prices and equality of treatment of all our farmers so that the produce is not just being shuffled by middlemen, but benefits all Kenyans equally."
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"content": "Hon. Francis Sigei."
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"speaker_name": "Sotik, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Francis Sigei",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I rise as a small-scale tea farmer. The Statement given by the Chairman is below average. He has given us an answer from Kenya Tea Development Agency. That is a script from there. I take my tea to Kapkatet and Mogogosiek tea factories. We got Ksh20 as tea bonus in Mogogosiek Tea Factory, and then somebody got Ksh56 to 60 in the eastern side. There is no justification whatsoever. Our people from the west have had a very raw deal for a long time. We need some serious answers for tea farmers."
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"speaker_name": "Sotik, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Francis Sigei",
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"content": "On the issue of tea tasting, somebody does it by mouth in the auction in Mombasa and then he tells us it is high quality. We want a serious technological approach on how to taste tea. We have a lot of problems. Our farmers toil. They go to the farm very early in the morning. They are rained on and then they get a raw deal. We cannot accept it. There must be an answer. We have a big problem. My people in Sotik are suffering. We need a better answer. We need to probe what is happening at the KTDA. Otherwise, we will continue suffering. We cannot allow it to continue. Our people are given a raw deal. I agree with my colleagues that the answer should be thrown out."
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"content": "Hon. Mukunji."
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"speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Firstly, I come from Embu where we have three factories that are always ranked amongst the ones that produce the best tea. In the world we are in, quality really matters. Quality of tea comes from usage of machines to harvest tea and the other ones that are done manually by people. It is true that prices of tea in Embu are better than in some other places. This is simply because of the quality of tea. The world is very competitive these days. We cannot ignore that we need to raise the standards of what we are giving to the world, so that we can get good tea. I want to educate my colleagues. Two leaves and a bud of tea are plucked. When you use a machine, it normally cuts more than five or six. When it is done that way, it cannot cost the same way. There is something called orthodox tea these days which gets the best prices in the world. This is the tea that has only the bud and it is well rolled up. With machinery harvesting, it is hard to achieve the quality of tea that we get in Embu. Even our prices will continue getting better because we are doing a huge campaign of ensuring that we focus on quality of tea rather than the quantity. There is a backlog in terms of months for tea that is not in the right grades from our friends in the east. I propose that they engage the farmers and the KTDA for civic education on getting and fetching better prices of tea."
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"content": "Hon. Cynthia."
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"speaker_name": "Nandi County, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Cynthia Muge",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thought Hon. Donya had done justice to this Statement. It is not proper for Hon. Mukunji to bastardise the quality of tea from the other areas. He cannot insinuate that the other tea farmers in this country, apart from those from his constituency, do not know better ways to grow tea. That is not proper. My point is not on the tea, but on the colloquial manner that the Executive answers Statements that are raised by the Members of this House. I have sat here several times, listened and heard the chairpersons of respective committees respond to Statements in this House. I can deduce from my very little and common knowledge that they do not take it as seriously as they should. That response does not even qualify to come from a layman who has no expertise in"
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"speaker_name": "Nandi County, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Cynthia Muge",
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"content": "The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"speaker_name": "Nandi County, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Cynthia Muge",
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"content": "tea matters. The Executive must take this House seriously and give us proper answers. We are not asking these questions for the sake of it, but we have real issues at home. We have large- scale and small-scale tea farmers in Nandi County. They go to the streets everyday because they go through a lot to get that tea to the factory. What do they earn? They earn petty peanuts here in the name of quality and standards. We all know the quality and standards of tea. They are lying to us. They should take this civic education they keep referring to, to the village so that those people can take it up, if they feel that is the problem. Otherwise, the Executive needs to up their game and give us proper answers for the serious questions we ask in this House."
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