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"speaker_name": "Lari, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Jonah Mwangi",
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"content": "Licencing should be another role for the Board. After the Board was disbanded in 2012, for one to have a licence to be a processor or a dealer, one must have a minimum of 250 hectares to operate like a processor. Today, we have over 52 companies that have been registered as briefcase processors. What is the reason? Those crooks register companies but do not have even one tea tree in their farm. What happens after? Where do they get tea to process? They start the tea hawking problem. They come with pick-ups in my locality and start buying tea from local farmers who are registered under KTDA. Such farmers are not guaranteed a minimum price at the end of the year because they buy at Kshs20 when KTDA gives them an initial of Kshs16. But they will not be assured the bonus of Kshs30 or Kshs40 that KTDA will give them. How do we eliminate such crooks because we will have people stealing our tea from farmers? Tea pickers will pick tea and hide some of it down at the river so that when the pick-ups come, it collects for the black market. That is why I am saying that the Tea Board should be in place so that licencing of tea processors should only be limited to those people who can have their tea. So, even if they buy tea from small-scale farmers, they already have their initial tea to start a factory. Initially, it was 250 hectares. Maybe, they should even increase it up to about 300 hectares so that they can have a minimal show of what they have."
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