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    "id": 83794,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/83794/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply- (a) The Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) has not imposed any levy on the dairy farmers delivering milk to the processors in Eldama Ravine and Koibatek District or any other part of the country. On 16th July, 2010, a processors levy was introduced by the KDB. The levy is payable by all processors and other persons who add value to milk. This category of the dairy industry stakeholders are defined as producers by the dairy industry Act which says; “persons who process, manufacture, prepare, or treat any dairy produce for sale.” This excludes dairy farmers who are defined as dairy producers by the Dairy Industry Act, Cap 336 of the Laws of Kenya. (b) The processors levy will not be paid by the dairy farmers but only by the processors and the milk traders only. The processors have all agreed not to pass on the levy to either the farmers or the consumers. The measure will, therefore, not be punitive to dairy farmers; instead, the dairy farmers will benefit from introduction of the levy through its usage in the improvement of the milk collection centres and the cooling facilities, milk conveyance and distribution in milk producing areas including Eldama Ravine Constituency and Koibatek District as a whole, in order to improve marketing and minimize spoilage and wastage in the industry."
}