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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mithika Linturi",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "fetch such good price would be put back, removed from the auction and presented again. This is what caused a lot of backlog and huge stock of unsold tea. This matter has been addressed. I do not like being specific with the figures, especially through a supplementary question because it is not properly backed with the correct figures on which factory has which stock and when it is dated. However, we have substantially reduced the amount of tea that was lying in the warehouses at Mombasa. We are progressing this way because there are a number of reforms that we are bringing into the tea sector. We had sales at the tea auction, including direct sales from our own factories. As I mentioned earlier, we did Kshs196 billion; a sum of Kshs180 billion from export and Kshs16 billion from local sales. This time round, mechanisms have been put in place, including roadshows, to sensitize our Kenyan people on the need to be a source of market for our own tea since we have a very big market that we have not utilised. This is one of the ways to ensure that before we get to that level of new markets, we do not have a lot of tea in the market by providing an avenue to sell our tea locally and increase our sales. The Senator asked a question in regard to livestock fodder production. We already have a mechanism in place. We have two projects: One under the Kenya Livestock Commercialization Project (KeLCoP) and drive. We launched this last year. It is a US$40 million project and the whole idea is to support farmers to do fodder production. We have put money under the Kenya Development Corporation (KDC) and the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) to ensure that young men and women or anybody else that want to engage in this business are able to access finances. We have also made it clear within our land commercialization programme, which we are really trying to fast track, that we will set aside land to do fodder production. This is because, if we are to succeed in this area, we have to bring the cost of animal feeds down for our farmers to realise good value for their milk and animals."
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