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    "id": 2261,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Monda",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Onsare Monda",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. I come from a coffee and tea-growing region which is Kisii. The Kisii farms have become too small because most farmers have a farm holding of half an acre or one acre. The tea crop is grown on average below an acre. The factories are constructed on loans that have finally become a responsibility of the farmers to repay and yet these are large loans. The farmers take a long time to repay these loans. I rise because I know the circumstances under which several factories in the Kisii region and other parts of this country have been constructed. The cost of farm inputs for both coffee and tea has also become very high. It is a big problem for the farmers to pay for the farm inputs and at the same time pay for the loans that were used for the construction of the tea factories. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on coffee, we know that the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU) was even put under receivership because of such loans. This is the case and yet this is a co-operative for small-scale farmers. Overall, I want to emphasize that coffee farmers have lost their crop because of the loans that they have to repay. On tea, I want to indicate that when farmers repay these loans, it takes away all their earnings from their production. You send your produce to the factories and at the end of the day, you only work to repay these loans. That is why I support this Motion and request the Government to take over those loans to offload the burden from tea farmers. They should ease the burden on Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU) and coffee farmers so that farmers and their families can benefit from the farm produce."
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