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    "id": 978904,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978904/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity to make my contribution on the Tea Bill. This Bill is very elaborate and appears to me as having been well researched. I am specifically interested in the section that is going to deal with the licensing of the tea brokers. You know that tea brokers are the reason the tea subsector is not paying very well to the farmers who are working very hard. Therefore, the proposal in this Bill to ensure that there is a proper licensing system for anybody who is interested in exporting, importing or marketing tea is something that will help in supporting the subsector. The other thing that is going to help in promoting the tea subsector is the registration of tea farmers, tea growers and tea processors. Tea growers and tea farmers will register with processors in every location and a register will be put in place to ensure that there is a record of everybody who is involved in the tea industry. This will help eliminate fake farmers in the subsector. I also like the fact that there is established competent Board consisting of representatives from farmers as well as Cabinet Secretaries in charge of the sector. There is an institution known as Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) which has been in charge of marketing and basically working with the tea farmers in this country to ensure that they market tea and also register farmers. Over the years, KTDA has become a mongrel and they have been able to reap from the true tea farmers in this country. Therefore, this Bill, as I have read it, is going to ensure that farmers benefit from this important subsector. As you know, tea is one of the largest foreign exchange earners for this country. When I was in the financial sector as a banker, the sector relied more from the tea industry especially when sales are done to 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."
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