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    "id": 977095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/977095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Having visited and listened to the CRI and met with the key stakeholders, as a Committee, we observed as follows: (i) The CRI is mandated to provide timeline advisory services through field visits, agricultural shows, radio programs, use of demonstration plots, publications, use of modern technology such as social media, provision of quarterly weather bulletins and disease and insect pest management protocols, but these functions had been scaled down. (ii) The CRI had 50 per cent funding that came from the Coffee Research Levy at 2 per cent of gross coffee proceeds. However, the levy was abolished in 2016. (iii) There had been salary delays at the CRI on two occasions. First, during the re- organisation of the CRI in compliance with Executive Order No.1 of 2016 and secondly, in Financial Year 2018/2019 where the allocation given to the KALRO did not factor in the approved harmonised salaries that had been effected and funded by the Exchequer with effect from January 2018. However, as at the time of the Committee visiting the CRI, this had been resolved and the current payments by KALRO were up to date. (iv) The last variety of coffee that was released by CRI was in 2010 and since then, there has been no new variety released by the institute. (v) The laboratory equipment at the CRI is obsolete. (vi) The CRI lacks modern irrigation infrastructure for coffee nurseries. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}