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    "id": 1042366,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1042366/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Lang’at)",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13189,
        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. I was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee that came up with this Bill. We listened to many farmers from various parts of the country whose contributions were taken on board while drafting this Bill. We listened to farmers in Kericho, Nyamira and Embu counties. I thank Sen. Cheruiyot for coming up with this Bill. Many farmers are now waiting for the enactment of this Bill into a law. They are supporting it in the social media. This will be an eye opener and I hope we will come up with other legislation to improving agriculture industry in this country. On matters to do with tea farming, we went to the Tea Research Foundation in Kericho, which used to be a very admirable, especially when it used to be East African Tea Research Foundation. That great institution is in a coma and it is about to collapse because of the present management and policies that are existing in the tea sector. There is no research going on in that institution. If we do not pass this Bill, tea farming will collapse. Many farmers are depressed and they are not growing tea of high grade because the Tea Research Foundation is no longer doing research. This institution and others need to be reformed. As Sen. Murkomen said, more amendments will be taken on board to improve this law. As of now, let us secure this golden opportunity that this House and the National Assembly has accorded us to pass this Bill. I thank everybody who has participated in making sure this---"
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