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    "id": 1042302,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1042302/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Some of us who come from tea growing areas know that it is a misery when you meet farmers and they give you their stories. In Nyeri County, we have had a case where a young man was captured on social media uprooting tea. Most tea farmers grow tea in their small shambas of four acres or so. When tea prices started collapsing, it was not because tea was not fetching money in the world market, but because there is a system that came. The KTDA was working before, but today farmers’ money and gains have been invested in nonproductive areas and they end up getting nothing. Today, as I speak, this year the farmers got almost nothing for their tea, not to talk about the miserable coffee farmers who have given up. Tea and coffee farmers in our neighbouring countries of Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda are making good money. In Kenya, silos were built by the colonialists for storing grains, including maize and wheat. However, today Kenya is importing maize. We have an opportunity to safeguard the tea industry. I appeal to this House to pass the Bill with the amendments thereon. If anybody thinks of anything better, they can bring it in future. However, for now, let us quickly pass it as it is, so that the Kenyan farmers have some hope."
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