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    "content": "India and the USA, which produce common foodstuffs, namely wheat, maize, rice, barley and potatoes, adopted the policy of assisting farmers through subsidies and investing a lot of money in agriculture. This policy makes other sectors of the economy to have a slower growth but the growth in agriculture shoots up. Once you develop agriculture, build factories to manufacture agricultural produce and create a local market, you are home and dry. As a country, we are poor because we have very little say in the pricing of most of the crops that we grow and export to the international market; neither do we have say on even their ownership here at home. A small tea farmer in Kericho or Kiambu grows tea there but they do not determine the price they are paid. The middlemen get everything and most of the big estates are owned by the multinationals. So, when you hear that Kenya is the second largest tea producer, it is not the black Kenyans who produce it. It is the “yellow” Kenyans who produce it."
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