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    "id": 1356636,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1356636/?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": "That it gets to a point where those that draw their livelihood from farming practices can comfortably predict and plan their lives because you have set up systems, you have put in place cooperatives, milling plants and mechanisms as an administration and even as a country, to be able to produce, market and eventually sell it at a good price. I am proud of this Bill, particularly on the element of marketing. This is because I can use the example of tea and sugarcane and so many other crops that the eventual price- -- I have never understood. Why is it the case that in almost all the crops and agricultural practices in this country as well as in sub-Saharan Africa, it is so difficult to have the farmer get more than 50 per cent of the earnings of the eventual cost of that particular product at the final retail price yet the farmer does the most difficult job ensuring that they tend to the crop; they put manure, prune, maintain it and eventually deliver it to the milling site? Be it sugarcane, coffee or tea. Unfortunately, the eventual price of what our farmers earn at best, even for a crop that supposedly does well like tea, is a maximum of 50 per cent. The eventual price of what that particular product cost, be it in a supermarket here in Kenya or overseas, is double what ends up in the pocket of our farmers. This, of course, we have been told is because of a concept called value addition, yet we know for a fact that there is no science. In many of these crops and products, what they are calling value addition, sometimes if it is avocados, it is just polishing and ensuring that it has a fine shine because there is nothing that you add. If it is coffee or tea, it is just to ensure that it is packaged properly and you---"
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