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    "id": 1476521,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1476521/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bobasi, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Innocent Obiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to second the Petition regarding tea growing and particularly the disparity in the tea bonuses in the various regions. I speak as a small-scale tea grower. I can tell you that with the amount of money you spend on tea growing and the amount you get you end up earning less than what you have spent in growing it. Therefore, this Petition must not call for a simple comment but an interrogation on how tea is being grown and how it is given to people to market. It must address the issue of why coffee from one area fetches more money than coffee from another area yet the marketing system is the same. Something must be terribly wrong. We also call upon the regulatory system of the government to ensure that the farmer is protected by getting his due share. There are many products we used to produce as a country which are no longer being produced. If management in the tea sector continues this way, the number of people growing the commodity will reduce because they are not getting any benefit. We will lose that industry. Therefore, we must protect tea growing. We must protect the farmer so that we benefit from this sub-sector to ensure that it enables them to pay school fees for their children. That way, it will help us, as a country, to get income. It is important for us to take it up at parliamentary level and regulate it. Thank you."
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