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    "id": 1504839,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1504839/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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    "content": "“Coffee development and marketing levy”; (b) in subclause (1) by deleting the words “two per centum” and substituting therefor the words “two and a half per centum”; (c) by deleting subclause (2) and substituting therefor the following new subclause— “(2) The levy imposed under subsection (1) shall be apportioned as follows— (a) thirty-five per centum to the Institute; (b) twenty per centum to the board for regulatory purposes; (c) fifteen per centum to the board for marketing purposes; and, (d) ten per centum to the counties growing areas on pro-rata basis as a conditional grant for coffee development.” The essence of this amendment is to, first of all, alter the per centum of the levy from two to two and a half per cent. It will also change from Coffee Development to Coffee Development and Marketing. That is to emphasise on marketing. We have not been selling our coffee to the specialty market effectively because we have not marketed it. We have put specific emphasis on marketing coffee. That is why we have increased the levy by 0.5 per cent and, therefore, revised the formula of sharing the levy. We have revised the formula from what came from the Senate to what we have. What we have increases the amount of money apportioned to the marketing board to 15 per cent instead of 10 per cent. I believe this is one of the issues that might come for mediation. From what came from the Senate, the percentage of money to go to county governments or growing areas on a pro rata basis is 25 per cent. We have put 10 per cent in that respect because, in this country, we believe that we have not properly done research on coffee and marketing coffee as a product."
}