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    "id": 1476515,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1476515/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Since Independence, this country has been managing the agriculture sector through cooperatives with the aim of coordinating production, processing and exporting the produce. In the past, people used to send their children to school without problems because they made a lot of money. The gold of our country was agricultural crops like coffee and tea. Kenya is the third largest producer of tea after China and India even though we have only the black tea variety. We need to improve our tea varieties based on the demand in the world. The biggest problem we have is delayed payment to farmers. If you receive the tea and sell it, it should not take too long for you to give the money to the farmers. There is lack of transparency in terms of how much money they receive and in the efficiency of remitting the money to the farmers. How much money do they retain for themselves as the trading house? As long as we do not make tea farming beneficial for farmers to make money, the tea sub sector will not thrive. What is going to happen to the tea industry is what we saw happen in the coffee industry. People uprooted their coffee trees because they were not getting value from the crop. Tea is an actual export earner for the country. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development needs to come clean. I am sure that the Office of the Auditor-General has already made reports on certain issues in various institutions that manage agriculture. If these reports are not taken seriously and acted on, we will continue to have a problem. We have a vicious cycle of wrongdoings in this country. We The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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