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    "id": 1042363,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1042363/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) (Musuruve)",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. I thank Sen. Cheruiyot for coming up with this Bill. He is truly alive to the fact that tea farming has value addition. When I was growing up, I would visit my late grandfather who apart from being a teacher was also a tea farmer. Mzee Reuben Haguri educated all his children, my paternal uncles and aunties using proceeds from tea. I saw the value of tea farming when I was growing up. But all of a sudden, the value slackened because of lack of good management and the coming in of brokers to the tea factory. The clarion call of this Bill is that we must support tea farmers. It is our duty as Senators to ensure that we support them. Tea farming has value addition if it well managed and well-coordinated. I am happy with the proposal to set up thee Tea Board of Kenya. The Board will bring sanity to the tea industry. Brokers have depressed tea farmers. Farmers feel that no one is keen about them. The will ensure we raise the standards of tea farming and make it attractive. When I started working for the first time as a teacher in 1990, I decided to give my father Mzee Inimah a gift of tea bushes. I am happy because even right now my mother who is a widow benefits from tea farming. This Bill will help farmers earn more from their sweat. I encourage my fellow Senators to support this Bill so that our farmers will be happy. May it be a boon, a golden opportunity and a Christmas gift to them. I support."
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