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    "id": 2281,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2281/?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, I am giving the origin of all the issues with regard to tea, so that you can appreciate the predicament in which the Government is in the management of the tea subsector. The KTDA was then privatized in 2000 under the Tea Industry Structural Reform Programme. Prior to the privatization of the subsector, the Government provided extension services to the growers who undertook the processing and marketing of tea. Following the privatization, these roles were taken over by the KTDA Ltd, which currently manages 66 small holder tea factories with a total of 554,715 tea growers. These factories are owned by the tea growers and are registered under the Companies Act as independent and private tea enterprises. All the 66 factories have borrowed a total of Kshs5.5 billion from the various financial institutions, where Kshs4.2 billion is the main loan sourced for the construction of the new satellite factories, expansion and renovation of the old factories, fuel, wood and land acquisition project as well as the hydro power project."
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