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"speaker_name": "Hon. Mithika Linturi",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to start with the last question. It is not true that we have 236 million kilogrammes worth of unsold tea stock in Mombasa County. I had a meeting with the KTDA yesterday in Nandi County together with the Tea Board of Kenya. I had led this team to China when we were sourcing for markets for the private farmers. The figures that the Senator has mentioned date back to last year. Immediately after, I appointed the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tea Board of Kenya, Mr. Willy Mutai, who has done a very good job. We have been able to push the sales of tea and ensure that the tea whose stock had accumulated in Mombasa County has been reduced substantially. The tea that we have left is slightly below 10 million kilogrammes. It is also important to mention that the reason why there was huge accumulation was because the quality of tea from a number of factories was not good. Tea being sold at the auction had a reserve price of a certain amount of dollars. Any tea that would not"
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