Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 170009,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/170009/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 516,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "(KTDA). We cannot over-emphasize the fact that monopoly has never really helped anybody. We are in a free market economy. Farmers who grow tea are suffering because we have one marketer known as KTDA. When I was campaigning, I used to see farmers waiting in tea buying centres up to midnight for their tea to be collected. Is it fair for the farmers, who have spent a lot growing tea in the first place, to be subjected to the kind of suffering they go through because of having a monopoly? There is inefficiency, and all the other ills that have been mentioned, including the way the directors are elected. Some of them do not have the capacity. It is a question of capacity, because they are given a big responsibility to manage the factories. Those are issues that we need to consider. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, more importantly, we need to think of decentralising the concept of marketing tea. One of way of doing this would be to ensure that each group markets its tea on its own without resorting to the KTDA. What we are looking for is vibrancy. The tea industry needs to become vibrant and the tea farmers need to get the most from their tea. When they invest in tea, it should be a business which they can get returns from."
}