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    "id": 1046756,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1046756/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 211,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "The benefits of a scheduled crop include financing. Bixa fetches almost a dollar per kilogramme in the international market. That is very rare. Many crops we have at the Coast do not get to that. A kilogramme of bixa fetches a dollar. The international market for bixa is very high because it provides natural dye and natural food colouring. China today relies on the bixa plant for its food colouring and dyes. But the market in Kenya for bixa has not been developed because there has not been deliberate Government funding for the bixa crop. So, today, there are many farmers who would like to have 10, 20 or 50 acres of land under bixa, but they cannot do that because they cannot get financing because the crop is not scheduled. The opportunity we have today is to empower many farmers who would make a lot of money from bixa. There are very many farmers, from the stories that are told, who if they had an opportunity to grow bixa in large scale, and are financed, would get a lot of money. They would not be begging for school fees and bursaries or going hungry. The young people would also not be staying at home jobless because they would be working in the bixa plantations."
}