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    "id": 1472461,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1472461/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": "governance issues in the cooperatives, which has been the problem and the cancer in this sector. Also, the Bill looks at addressing inefficiencies in coffee processing and reducing the cost to improve productivity, particularly for smallholder farmers who are overburdened by the cost within the industry. In terms of regulations, the Bill proposes transitioning the regulatory and commercial roles currently undertaken by AFA to the Board. It also seeks to transfer the research in coffee from KALRO to the Coffee Research and Training Institute. It also provides a framework for the establishment of the Coffee Development Levy. This Fund will sustain activities within the coffee sector. It also identifies institutions that will participate in this industry. Several pieces of legislation support this legislation. I wish to mention a few of them: the Crops Act and the AFA Act are key. The Cooperative Societies Act is key. The KALRO Act is also key. They will somehow influence by this Bill. There are certain amendments. The amended version of the Capital Markets Authority Act of 2016 will also be affected. This Bill gives the authority to regulate spot commodity markets, such as the Nairobi Coffee Exchange. The Warehouse Receipting System Act of 2019 has also been invoked in this legislation, where the Act provides for the warehousing of agricultural goods in government warehouses and facilities. Coffee is one of the commodities we must store securely because once it is in the bean form, it is always stolen because it is regarded as green gold."
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