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    "id": 978932,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978932/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 138,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
        "slug": "athanas-wamunyinyi"
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    "content": ". Middlemen take most of the earnings. For instance, the people involved in marketing tea and coffee do nothing in terms of production. They are not involved in planting and the general process of management of sugar-cane, tea and coffee. They are not involved even at the processing level, but they turn up for marketing and take a big percentage of the earnings that would otherwise be due to farmers. They are the ones who reap the most at the end of the day, after everything has been done by ordinary farmers. Therefore, once enacted into law, this Bill will help to cure some of those problems. We must address the issue of marketing. Hon. Speaker, I have noted that the membership of the proposed Board is 11. It will consist of the chairperson and members drawn from the parent Ministry, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Co-operatives, two persons from the Council of Governors, four persons representing farmers, one person representing the plantation growers and one person representing tea traders, who would be like millers in the sugar industry. The Chief Executive Officer plays an"
}