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    "id": 823465,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/823465/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "The President talks about the Big Four Agenda and one of them is manufacturing. Value addition gives us an opportunity to manufacture, create jobs and sell our products at high level just like other countries. If you look at the products that the coconut tree gives us today, you will realise that there has been very little effort at ensuring that we have better products. The palm wine that is consumed widely in this country comes from the coconut tree and it is only 60 per cent. Mature nuts take 24 per cent. This country imports brooms from other countries. The coconut tree can supply enough and better quality brooms for this country instead of importing them which offsets the balance of trade for this country. We also get coconut wood and other products from the coconut tree. The flower industry uses materials from the coconut tree to grow flowers. It uses the cocopeat. Interestingly, the cocopeats that are used mostly in Naivasha and other parts of this country to grow flowers are imported. This increases the cost of production of flowers in this country while the coastal region can supply that. Because there has not been any intervention in terms of support, the coconut tree, which has huge potential, continues to go down and yet we increase the amount of imports in this country. This makes the balance of trade negatively skewed towards the country. Therefore, it is important to invest in the coconut tree, so that we can reap the benefits that it can give us."
}