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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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"content": "Kenya has been on the world map as the top tea farmer. In fact, tea from Sri Lanka cannot access any market until it is blended with tea from Kenya. That is how good our tea is. You go to Pakistan, Afghanistan and the entire Middle East, Kenyan tea is the one everybody takes. Even when one goes to UK, the famous English breakfast tea is not English but Kenyan tea. It is unfortunate that farming in this country - and a country that is agricultural - has not been given the weight it deserves by successive governments. In the good old days, many of our colleagues left the university to go straight to work for Brook Bond, James Finley or any of those companies because they were very good employers. We cannot say the same today. We who grow maize in the western part of Kenya and the North Rift used to depend on parts of tea growing areas for our market. As the Senator of Bomet has said, they utilized all their land with tea and they had sufficient money to buy food from elsewhere. There was a market for maize we grew in other parts of the country. Today the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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