{"id":182078,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/182078/?format=json","text_counter":101,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Eng. Maina","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":75,"legal_name":"Ephraim Mwangi Maina","slug":"ephraim-maina"},"content":"asked the Minister for Agriculture:- (a) whether he is aware that world coffee prices have dropped significantly and, therefore, negatively affected the country's earnings; (b) whether he is further aware that due to the above situation, coffee farmers are now uprooting the crop and resorting to alternative farming; and, (c) what measures he is putting in place to cushion coffee farmers from fluctuating world prices and to promote their produce in international markets to fetch better prices."}