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    "id": 429242,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/429242/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gaichuhie",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 17,
        "legal_name": "Nelson Ributhi Gaichuhie",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am going to summarize it. So, the Government’s intervention to revitalize the sector for the last three years has yielded positive results by banning exportation of unprocessed Macadamia. In a bid to ensure that there is no monopoly on the prices, the Processors and Growers Association in a stakeholders meeting held in Embu in 2010 agreed to meet every beginning of the harvest season so that they can have a fixed price from the farmers where they buy the Macadamia. In 2014, the price of Kshs50 per kilogramme was publicised through both the print and the electronic media but by 2013, it had increased up to Kshs80 per kilogramme. So, the price dialogue is done between the Growers and Processors Association under the chairmanship of the Director, Crops Management. Therefore, there is no single company that sets the prices. Nevertheless, in order to improve the prices offered to farmers while maintaining competition amongst macadamia sector players, the Competition Authority has prioritised surveillance in this sector with the aim of ensuring that there is no competition, that the infractions exist and that the regulations and mechanism governing the sector are always supportive of the competition process. Therefore, the prices are never monopolised. There is the Competition Authority, which always takes care of such developments. Advocacy is also deepening the motivation to establish more processing facilities and registration of new investors in the nut industry in line with our policy of exporting value added nuts products. Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker."
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