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    "id": 287711,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/287711/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The delayed collection of tea leaves from the buying centres in Bomet County was as a result of inadequate capacity of processing plants due to increased leaf intake caused by periodic irregular high precipitation and impassable non all weather roads. (b) The following short, medium and long-term measures have been initiated to ensure that the collection of leaves is efficiently managed in Bomet County. Short-term measures include improvement of tea feeder roads to all weather level by the KTDA, regular leaf collection fleet management to maintain serviceable and operational status and prompt fleet outsourcing during peak crop seasons. There is also schedule diversion of excess leaf collected to neighbouring factories. The medium-term measures are to inject capital to facilitate expansion and modernizing of the existing six factories to accommodate the annual leaf harvest, construction of a new 5 million green leaf capacity factory at Olenguruone at a cost of Kshs400 million commenced in December, 2011. The construction is expected to be completed in July 2013. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the proposed Mboito Tea Factory and Mogogoisek Tea Factory, long terms measures include the fact that factory boards are in the process of identifying a suitable site for construction of another processing plant at the conclusion of the project being undertaken. Thank you."
}