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    "id": 978930,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978930/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 136,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
        "slug": "athanas-wamunyinyi"
    },
    "content": "Governments across the world ensure that an industry that has a direct impact on the livelihoods of the people is protected. Every effort must be made to ensure that the interests of tea farmers, coffee farmers, sugar-cane farmers and maize farmers, among others, are protected . Every effort must be made to ensure that those industries are properly regulated. Those industries must be supported to ensure that production is enhanced, and that farmers do not make losses. Farmers need to feel happy that the Government is supporting them. Therefore, I support the Tea Bill, which seeks to provide a framework within which the affairs of the tea sub-sector will be managed – providing regulations, development as well as promotion of the tea industry as a priority. It is important to note that the Board that will be established through this Bill will have clear functions, which will include regulation and promotion of the industry; and coordination of the activities of individual farmers as well as the stakeholders within the industry. The Bill seeks to ensure that there is proper facilitation of access to resources, and that farmers are supported to ensure that they access markets without difficulty. One of the problems we have had even in other sub-sectors – the coffee and sugar industries – is amalgamation of the previous enabling Acts. That amalgamation has had very serious adverse effects on farmers in the country. Therefore, the effort we are making to re-enact the Sugar Act are in line with the efforts geared towards helping farmers in the country. In the sugar and coffee sub-sectors, middle-men comprising of marketers and others dealing in sugar importation and so on, have been the main beneficiaries at the expense of the ordinary"
}