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    "id": 979941,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/979941/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Vincent Kemosi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Vincent Kemosi Mogaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to the Tea Bill. In Kenya today, tea is managed by the KTDA, which is a private entity that is managing 69 factories in 21 tea growing counties in the Republic of Kenya. Tea growing is the greatest agricultural practice that earns this country huge sums of money. However, it is a fact that this sector has been mismanaged and farmers are crying. They do not get the correct output that they should get. As years go by, the tea sector is getting worse despite farmers trying to maintain it and increase their acreage of farming. In the last two or three years, in Nyamira County, which is a tea growing area, more particularly West Mugirango where I come from, farmers were frustrated and most of them uprooted their tea crops. They said that they could do other agricultural activities like planting maize. This was necessitated by the poor earnings they got at the end of the year. They go to their lands to farm, but the money they get at the end of the year is unable to sustain what they have invested in their farms. 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."
}