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    "content": "London, where there is not a single coffee tree, and they are the biggest earners of the proceeds from coffee? The biggest producer of coffee at the moment, I think is Germany, yet they do not have a single tree anywhere. They are getting Brazilian coffee on one end and Kenyan coffee on the other end, putting them together and then selling it as German coffee, at the rate of Three Euros per cup of coffee. If you transform Three Euros in a cup of coffee to a kilogramme of our Kenyan coffee, the farmer should be getting not less than Kshs100 to Kshs150 per kilogramme, yet at the moment, a farmer is earning Kshs17 per kilogramme and sometimes it goes down to Kshs7 per kilogramme. We simply cannot afford a situation where we have got poor farmers who work so hard. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, as a short-term measure, the Motion that Sen. Muthama has moved is okay, but it is only a short-term measure. We must invite companies out there, including the Walmarts of this world and other supermarkets which can work with us to make our coffee sellable here. While we wait for that, it is also important for us to create cartels and monopolies. The reason oil became expensive in 1973 is because the Arab nations came together and sold their oil together. So, the reason we can be cheated here is because the Machakos and Nyeri coffee is being sold everywhere in bits and pieces. But we could come together and say that the Murang’a, Nyeri and Machakos coffee is going to be sold at once together and we will not sell our coffee until the price is so much. That is where Sen. Muthama’s Motion should come in, so that we can hoard the coffee and tea until somebody out there is willing to pay our price. But in order for us to do that, it is necessary that county governments and the national Government have some form of intervention that can say that the farmer will not go hungry during that period, and we continue paying the farmer a little money until when the price has gone up, so that he does not starve. So, we do not actually have to buy the coffee. All we need to do is to make sure that the farmer keeps on earning some money from us, so that they do not starve and sell their coffee at a price that is next to nothing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few words, I beg to support."
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