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    "id": 980535,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980535/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Tea Bill (Senate Bill No.36 of 2018) be now read a Second Time. Hon. Speaker, this is a Bill sponsored by Senator Aaron Cheruiyot. It was transmitted to the National Assembly for consideration. The Bill provides for the regulation, development and promotion of the tea industry. It establishes the Tea Board of Kenya (TBK). It provides for its functions, powers, membership and its administration. It also has regulatory provisions on the role of national and county governments, registration, licensing and dissemination of market information. The Crops Act (No.16 of 2013) repealed the Tea Act (Cap.343) in its Second Schedule whereas the First Schedule of the Agriculture and Food Authority Act (No.13 of 2013) abolished the defunct Tea Board of Kenya. In its place and in place of other crops is the Agriculture and Food Authority Act (No.13 of 2013), it establishes the Agriculture and Food Authority. Although the establishment of the Agriculture and Food Authority had been hoped to centrally address the challenges of farmers of various crops, this has not been the case and farmers have pointed out the challenges they were experiencing in the growth and development of various crops that had previously been separately regulated. After the Committee received the Bill, pursuant to Article 110 of the Constitution and Standing Order 127(3), it invited interested members of the public, through the print media, to submit Memoranda to Parliament on the same on or before 3rd September 2019. Also, there were public hearings where the Committee received comments on the Bill from stakeholders on 14th October 2019 in Konoin Constituency, Kericho County."
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