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"content": "In Colombo tea auction, the price of tea in the Financial Year 2011/2012 was US$ 3.08 and in 2012/2013 it was US$ 3.18. But the actual one where our tea passes through, Mombasa tea auction, in that period it was US$ 2.74 and US $ 2.80 respectively. But here in this Statement they are quoting the Colombo tea auction. You can see this is a totally irrelevant answer given what I raised. The issue of the brokers was not even tackled, because they are the ones who determine whether to pay this tea bonus or not. I wondered why there was no proper answer by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. I would wish that this request could be interrogated further. I hope, I will come up with another request later on, which I would wish details to be interrogated and then a proper answer be provided. The issues of mismanagement by KTDA were not tackled in any way. I expected issues like procurement to be investigated and answers provided if they are being done correctly. I expected issues like regional structure of KTDA to be tackled. It has several levels which are very costly to the farmer, if they could be considered to be scrapped because this structure is not in the best interest of the farmers. There is the issue of research tax which is there in this sector---"
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