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    "id": 1045918,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1045918/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matuga, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassim Tandaza",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kassim Sawa Tandaza",
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    "content": "The Bill was published on 5th April, 2019 and was read for the first time in the National Assembly on 26th June, 2019. Following the First Reading in the National Assembly, it stood committed pursuant to Standing Order 127(1) to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock for facilitation of public participation. Achiote known at the Coast as ‘Mrangi’ because of its bright red fruits, is a crop largely grown at the Coast, but whose potential has been underutilised. The fruit is harvested for its seed which contain bixin used for colouring of cheese, fish, salad oil, margarine and cosmetics like lipsticks. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Achiote tree was introduced in the Coast region in the 1970s. The crop is disease-and-pest free and is drought resistant. The crop is also believed to ward off destructive wildlife like elephants, thus farmers plant it in their farms and homesteads to act as a buffer crop. There is only one manufacturing plant for this crop, Kenya Bixa, which is an agro-based company in Tiwi, Ukunda in Kwale County, whose business is to promote the growth of Bixa tree as a commercial crop in the Coast region. It produces, buys, stores and processes Bixa seeds into natural food colours and has been marketing the same since 1979."
}