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"content": "Thank you. If you go to the ground, the rate at which the economy has grown in the first quarter, that is 10 per cent, cannot be demonstrated. Somebody cannot feel the 10 per cent growth. We are yet to see because there is more time to see whether the growth is true. Secondly, the President touched on agriculture and mainly on the tea subsector. On Mashujaa Day, he said that the Government had set aside Ksh1billion to cushion tea farmers from the effects of the bonus. The President was able to demonstrate that all along they have been providing money in terms of subsidies for fertilizer. I, however, do not agree with him that in the history of Kenya, this is the first time that tea farmers were able to earn more money. Where I come from which is a tea growing area, this is the first time farmers have received money per kilo. It is the worst in the history of Kenya. Farmers have really suffered even in terms of fertilizer subsidies. I know farmers have been paying Ksh900 for a bag of fertilizer. This year I received a delegation of farmers who were telling me they need this issue to be raised in Parliament. Why are we paying Ksh2,500 while we have been paying Ksh1,900? These are issues we need to address so that when they come from Government officials and especially the Head of State, the country should be able to agree that what he is saying is true."
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