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    "id": 1475520,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1475520/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kaguchia John",
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    "content": "We should look at this Bill together with the Co-operatives Bill, so that we can ensure transparency from the leaders at the factory level. Many of them treat coffee factories like their own personal property, and making decisions that do not favour the farmers. Many a times, we have heard about leaders of coffee co-operative societies borrowing money from commercial banks at very high interest rates. Then, they hoodwink or lie to farmers that the rates are good. The farmers end up paying a high interest rate on the loan. I am happy we have the Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund (CCARF). We must ban all coffee co-operative societies from borrowing money commercially or non- commercially. Every coffee co-operative society can operate without loans. Why do they need a loan? Coffee is delivered to their factories, and they can take care of overheads using proceeds from it. Why do they need commercial loans, which end up bringing huge losses to our farmers? Those coffee factories have big trucks of land which they should make use of. They should plant model farms, harvest, and use the proceeds of sales to take care of the overheads in the factories. This is possible, and we suggested the same to coffee factories in Nyeri County. I want to believe that the county government of Nyeri will take it seriously because these proceeds will support coffee factories."
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