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    "id": 910450,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/910450/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to give a few remarks on this Petition. Tea farming is important in this country just like other types of farming. What has been lost to the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation is the voice of the farmer. They collapsed all organisations that used to represent farmers into something called the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), something that is not sensitive to individual specialization of farmers. You will find the animal called AFA talking about coffee, tea, fishing and sugarcane, so that we have many competing interests without specialization. We, Members of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, have been looking at the possibility of unbundling this animal so as to get entities that specialise in various sectors. So, a time has come and I think it is important to look at tea and have the farmers’ voice in tea entities, so that the farmer gets the right attention, is resourced and can speak to people. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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