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    "id": 181846,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/181846/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Maina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "I have not finished! We are spending time looking for foreign exchange, and telling tourists to come here, but let us look at coffee. If coffee farming was supported today, we would get enough foreign exchange, five times what we are getting today. If tea was supported today--- I feel like shedding tears when I see a tea farmer uprooting tea bushes in total desperation. The same tea farmer is the one who is enabling us to earn the foreign exchange that we use to buy drugs and fuel. Can we not support tea or coffee farming? Maybe, if we do that we may not need to talk to those donors while kneeling down. We will stand up as a country. I would like to say that I support and commend the Ministry for trying. Let us 3138 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 29, 2008 commercialise our agriculture; let the farmers get good returns. Let us have bold policies and not those brought here by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the World Bank. Kenya will never come out of the yoke of slavery until we can take courage and do it. Malawi did it. A friend of mine told me about it. They took a decision against the IMF and the World Bank. Today, they are exporting maize. A small poor country is exporting maize, and we are buying from them. We are even buying sugar from them. Let us think and put resources in our agriculture and become a free, peaceful and healthy nation and walk with pride. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, agriculture is our base; it is the best for our economy and it is the survival base for our people. For heaven's sake, let us give what is due; let our research also be put into meaningful things. I am looking forward to having our universities come up with findings to improve our agriculture, they way they did with Katumani maize breed. Let us relook into our policies. With those remarks, I support the Vote of the Ministry."
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