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    "id": 1200147,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1200147/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatundu South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. GG Kagombe",
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    "content": "We also need to add value to our produce. Where I come from, we produce tea, coffee, avocadoes and other agricultural produce but this produce goes to the market at a very low value. As a country, we are number one tea exporters; we control the world trade on tea. The tea we export is probably worth about US$15 billion per year but we only benefit from 10 per cent of it, which is US$1.5 billion per year. We must enable our people to add value to our produce. Without value addition, we lose out on a lot of money as a country; money which is repatriated to other countries. That cannot be done if we do not reduce the bureaucracies around packaging materials. The greatest impediment to value addition in the country is tax on value addition produce and packaging materials for such produce and other produce. Again, we have a tax regime that hampers production because what should be taxed at consumption is taxed as trade."
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