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"speaker_name": "Bureti, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Japheth Mutai",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Petition. The coming of machines in tea growing areas has impacted negatively on the economy of those areas. First of all, majority of the population relies on working in tea plantations. As a result of mechanisation, many livelihoods have been affected. All sub-sectors have been affected. Tea pickers, transporters who ferry them to tea plantations, mama mboga and even food suppliers who provide them with food in the plantations have been affected. It is a whole chain that has been affected. The advent of the machines has a negative impact. That notwithstanding, the population in those areas is coming into terms with the economy that has been affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic and they have to deal with the problem of mechanisation of tea picking. Tea companies have not sensitised the population and they should not be trusted. There is a way in which they should have introduced mechanisation. Terminating employment is unwarranted. The economies of the areas are built by their large populations. The introduction of machines will undo what has been done for many generations. Currently, with the bottom-up economy, we need all the workers at the bottom to be employed. The wages should come from the bottom as we progress and when we get up, we can move to the machines. As at now, let us build the economy at the bottom."
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