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    "id": 1202810,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1202810/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
        "slug": "aaron-cheruiyot"
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    "content": "For those of us who had the opportunity to move around and listen to farmers during campaigns, the main two challenges are the cost of farm imputs and market for their goods. They should sell their produce at good prices without feeling that they are being exploited. A good aggregator for all our products will enable our farmers to enjoy the fruits of their labour. As it is the practice now, if we allow it to continue without having the kind of policies that he proposed, we will continue with the trend where an ordinary farmer is not the beneficiary of their practice. As a country, we must have a discussion about value addition. We cannot continue, for example, talking about the tea sector. We have 14 Senators in this House who represent tea farmers. We cannot be the world’s leading producer of the best black tea, yet we are only bulk selling. We must have a discussion about value addition so that in the next five years, we can add value to our tea in excess of 50 per cent. Right now, we are only doing 5 per cent. Our farmers will never enjoy the fruits of their labour as long as they continue picking tea, taking it to the factories, packing it in containers and transporting it to Mombasa for auction. We must have a ready market for value added tea. The final product should fetch up to US$5 per kilogramme as opposed to what is being sold right now at a dollar or two. Those are the policies that he proposed in his speech."
}