{"id":823464,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/823464/?format=json","text_counter":209,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kilifi North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Owen Baya","speaker":{"id":13373,"legal_name":"Owen Yaa Baya","slug":"owen-yaa-baya"},"content":"The coconut has many economic uses. Since Independence, very little interventions have been put in place to optimise its huge economic potential and maximise its returns for socio- economic reasons. There is inadequate value addition in the coconut sub-sector. There is very little that is being done to commercialise the coconut sub-sector through technology, innovation, infrastructural development, distribution, marketing and financing. This is one of the reasons that the coconut sub-sector has continued to underperform in this country, and therefore not giving this country the much-needed revenue."}