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    "content": "If you are paying a bonus, do so. If depression brings it to Kshs10 or Kshs20, you should pay everybody that. However, it does not make sense to pay a farmer in Kisii County Kshs8 and pay a farmer elsewhere Kshs6 or something like that. Madam Temporary Speaker, lastly, I encourage the Committee being formed; apart from looking at the troubles bedeviling the industry, the exploitation of the farmers, workers and the lack of value addition that Sen. Ndwiga has talked about, to also address the issue of the expansion of the industry. Since, there are hardly any new factories coming up, of tea. Madam Temporary Speaker, in Bungoma County where I come from, there was a research that was carried out 20 years ago to build 40 factories in Mt. Elgon. Perhaps those factories would have created employment and stopped these marauding youth from raiding and killing people. Every time they hear you have sold a goat or some bags of potatoes, they come for the money in the evening. If there were tea factories, they would be gainfully employed to do something else so that people can enjoy their hard earned money. Madam Temporary Speaker, I congratulate my distinguished friend and Senator for Kericho for thinking about the tea farmers and for bringing this Motion. The team he has put in place are all impeccable Senators who come from tea growing areas. I hope they will bisect and dissect these problems seriously and make recommendations that will help the farmers so that we have sanity in this industry. I beg to support."
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