{"id":15686,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/15686/?format=json","text_counter":213,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Khalwale","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":170,"legal_name":"Bonny Khalwale","slug":"bonny-khalwale"},"content":"asked the Minister for Agriculture:- (a) whether he is aware that tea export has overtaken the tourism sector as the leading source of foreign exchange to the country; (b) whether he is also aware that small-scale farmers are not benefitting from tea farming due to high cost of production; and, (c) what measures he will take to cushion tea farmers from the high cost of production to make tea farming viable."}