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    "id": 182094,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/182094/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not the Government that has brought the prices of coffee down; they dropped because of forces in the international market in 1987 and 1988. It came down from 150,000 metric tonnes, which Kenya used to sell, to 50,000 metric tonnes, which we are now selling. It is not of our own making! Again, when the prices went down, our farmers ignored the crop; they stopped attending to it they way the had been doing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the problem is also not by the Government; it is because of the foreign exchange rate. If the US Dollar is at Kshs60, and our coffee fetches US$3 per kilogramme, that is Kshs180. If you consider the cost of inputs and labour, what the farmer gets becomes very little. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, however, as a Government, we have now undertaken some interventions. We are giving farmers fertilisers at a subsidized price. We are also giving funds for the farmers to access credit. These are interventions that we are undertaking. We have also written off the loans which have been bothering them for years. These are many things the Government is doing, and I would expect the hon. Member to appreciate a bit what the Government is doing."
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