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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the timing of this liberalization is ideal. It is timely. If we are able to do it, we will most likely regain the market that we have lost. It is important to know that the pyrethrum industry in Kenya is controlled by the Pyrethrum Act, which was enacted in 1964. While we have maintained legislation since 1964, Australia has zero regulation. The Government of Australia has actively encouraged the growth of pyrethrum with grants, loans, tax advantages and even Government funded research. So, it is important that we look at this liberalization as a way of going back into the market and claiming our role, which came to us in 1929 through the colonialists. We have lost this role over the years because of that regulation and more so, because of mismanagement and inefficiency in the way that we have handled this industry. Currently, the board has been unable to pay farmers on time. Even the employees and managers have difficulties receiving their salaries. Even where the board has been paid for products in advance, it has not delivered. Literally, the PBK has no source of revenue and they have got to a point where they sometimes have resorted to selling assets."
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