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    "id": 1213771,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1213771/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Butula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maero Oyula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the annulment of the regulations on the coffee industry. The coffee industry in Kenya has gone through many rough stages. Farmers have been left without any information and middlemen have taken over the role of farmers. It is important that if regulations are being made for an organisation, the people concerned are involved. It looks like farmers were left out when these regulations were being made, resulting in their suffering in terms of not getting the correct payments and ruining of the market. The coffee market in Kenya was very good in the past but because of middlemen, a lot of interference came up and farmers lost ground. Farmers have turned to leasing their land for activities other than coffee farming yet coffee was one of the best foreign currency earner for this country. It is important that we go back, support farmers and make sure that Kenyan coffee once again earns the glory that it had in the past. I support this annulment and request that when the next regulations are being prepared, farmers should be included. Farmers should be made to know. Where possible, farmers’ views should also be incorporated into the regulations instead of leaving them out and letting them suffer because of middlemen’s interference with coffee-growing. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the annulment."
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