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    "id": 924948,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/924948/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gichugu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gichimu Githinji",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13341,
        "legal_name": "Robert Gichimu Githinji",
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    "content": "Another area we need to relook at is the bottom-up development approach rather than the up-bottom approach. One of the areas that have been forgotten and which came through the Economic Stimulus Programme was the constituency industrial development centres. These are small but critical industries which would have been very useful in improving the economy of this country. We would be producing so many products from various areas because every area is blessed differently economically. Those products would feed into the industrial parks now that we are looking at building them. Some of the products can also be exported out of this country. That will help in reducing the trade deficit we are facing in this country. I cannot forget the subsidies or incentives that need to be given to our farmers, especially those in giant export areas of tea and coffee. We need subsidies from the Government in terms of farm inputs, fertilisers, chemicals and other things that will cushion the farmer so that we can produce and export more. Areas like Kirinyaga, especially Gichugu produce some of the best coffee in the world. These areas should also be earmarked for purposes of subsidies in terms of fertilisers and chemicals so that farmers can produce more. We are not able to produce more coffee that can compete with coffee from Brazil and other areas that produce a lot of coffee. Our production is very low yet we expect to gain so much from it. Over the years, production of these cash crops has been reducing. It is high time the Government came to the rescue of the farmers. I am happy that when the President was reopening RIVATEX, he directed that the relevant Ministries…"
}