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    "id": 948642,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Khaniri",
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        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
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    "content": "(KTDA) to ensure that there is competition, so that the farmer can get value for their products. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with Sen. Wetangula and support the analogy he gave when he spoke. The tea sector has been mistreated and has not been given the attention it deserves. Since you were not in the Chair, Sen. Wetangula in his analogy said that when you have your prime cow, the one that produces a lot of milk, you separate it from the others. You even feed it separately and ensure that it is well fed. You do not mix it with the rest of the herd. That is what should happen to the tea sector. Tea is the biggest foreign exchange earner of this country yet other sectors are financed and given a lot of budget reallocations but the tea sector is just there. We expect to get foreign exchange from it but we are not putting in enough and creating an enabling environment for the tea farmer. We urge the Government to provide an enabling environment to ensure that the tea farmer gets to benefit from what they do. We came up with recommendations in our Report. As Sen. Cheruiyot said, some of them are contained in the Tea Bill. Therefore, we cannot belabour but we still insist that this Report is passed so that what is not in the Tea Bill but it in this Report is implemented for the farmer to reap maximum benefits."
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