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    "id": 316996,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/316996/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture is very small compared to what other Ministries are getting. What we are doing to keep the Ministry running is that we are really supporting our parastatals, for example, the Kenya Tea Board and the rest. The stakeholders are the ones who came up with this idea so that the Kenya Tea Board can continue with research, looking for new market and do value addition to this. They agreed to increase the cess. The farmer is still getting what he was getting before. In terms of payment it has no effect to the farmer. The hon. Member has said that cess addition has reduced tea sales. But this has not been felt anywhere. In fact we started getting this cess from March up to now and there is no effect as the hon. Member has said. As regards write-offs, that is not within my power. I can assure the hon. Members that what the board is collecting is not affecting the farmer in any way and we care about the farmer."
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