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    "id": 2278,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2278/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbiuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 79,
        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, from the outset, I would like to thank Dr. Khalwale for bringing this Motion to the House. My heart and spirit is with this Motion. I would like to start with coffee. Where I come from, we have been brought up by coffee. In the early 1970s and 1980s, coffee was the leading export earner. However, in the late 1980s and 1990s, the coffee fortunes went down as a result of massive debts. The Government has gone out of its way for the last five years to revive coffee production and as at now, many farmers are reverting to coffee production. The Government has instituted several measures to ensure that the production of coffee is enhanced. Most of the debts have been waived. As I stand here, I want to confirm that the Government has approved more than Kshs2 billion to waive most of the debts in the coffee subsector. We expect that in early January, the Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance will be able to move across the entire country issuing these cheques, so that the farmers and the farmers union can utilize this money to offset all those historical debts which have been weighing down the farmers."
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