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    "id": 429275,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/429275/?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": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to confirm that there is no one company that has the monopoly of Macadamia nuts. We have Kenya Nuts Company which has only a 31.25 per cent share. We have Equatorial Nuts which has 23.4 per cent share. We have Wonder Nuts and Jungle Nuts. Both of them have 11 per cent shares. Then the other small ones have 33.21 per cent. Africana has a 6.2 per cent share. So, in total, all the 12 companies share the 100 per cent of the Macadamia nuts. Secondly, the growers have an association called the Kenya Macadamia Nuts Growers Association. When it comes to the prices, at every harvest season, they meet with the processors and agree on a price which they are going to purchase the Macadamia nuts at the gate. So, it is not a monopoly of the processors. The last time they met in Embu near Meru where we have the Macadamia nuts. So, the growers meet with the processors. We do not have one company dealing with Macadamia. On why the Government banned the exportation of raw nuts, it is because we noticed that our Kenyan industries were actually going to close shop and I think it is a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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