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    "id": 1526825,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mutahi Kagwe",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "There is the issue of ensuring that the farmer is protected and earns more and these are policy issues in framework. They form different decisions including budget decisions when you consolidate them together. On the issue of the loans, Greenleaf Feather is a SACCO owned by the tea farmers themselves because it is via the Tea Board of Kenya. Greenleaf Feather SACCO is an organization where the tea farmers borrow money at 8 percent. They therefore do not have to go to commercial banks for their inputs and pay as much as 18 percent. However, I agree with the hon. Senator that it is not always that they get opportunities to do so. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for my Senator, hon. Wamatinga, it is true that we are looking at macadamia holistically and we are supplying macadamia seedlings. Some people have come around and collected and I can promise the hon. Senator that Nyeri County will not be left behind in the supply of Macadamia seedlings. For the hon. Sen. Olekina, the Senator of Narok and my friend, I wish to congratulate Narok County for going into serious tea farming. However, what happens is that teas are blended at the auction and they are blended for specific reasons. For example, the tea from Narok might be blended with the tea from somewhere else depending on who wants what and I had answered this question earlier in the session. For example, the Turkish people might come and request for a specific taste of tea. Then we will take the Narok tea and blend it with another tea, so that they can produce the taste required for a specific market. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we sell tea from Kenya, we encourage them to say that this Kenyan tea. However, there are individuals who are now promoting tea as Kenyan tea, but also specific to other areas but we still encourage that brand Kenyan tea be first and foremost the song that you sing. I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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