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    "id": 1526795,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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    "content": "he comes from one of the farming communities. The agricultural counties across the whole country are expecting a lot from you. Having said that, I have travelled to the USA on several occasions and I have walked through the largest supply chain store-Walmart. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, I hope your officers can stop distracting you because this is an important question. Our tea and coffee products are not in the USA market. Some of the questions being asked here, are about the price of tea or coffee commodities and the amount of money that is getting into the farmers' pockets. They have a problem. The price that is being paid for tea per kilogramme is not commensurate to the cost of living and the inputs in the farms. What is the Ministry doing to ensure that we access better markets and achieve better prices for our coffee and tea products? How do we ensure that those prices, once they are paid, get into the farmers' pockets? How do we reduce the middlemen, who are cutting away money from the bonuses and payments that are due to tea, especially the banks which are taking very high interest rates? Is there anything the Ministry can do to ensure that farmers receiving finance from any bank, based on the guarantee of their bonus for the tea price, are not wiped away by interest rates? What is the Ministry doing to mitigate that?"
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