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    "id": 980665,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980665/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "in this country, for example, sugar-cane, tea or coffee. However, the Government of that time decided that we must have one organisation that deals with all the crops, but they will have directorates. It looks like we are going back to the old route of having a board for coffee, tea and sugar-cane like the Kenya Sugar Board. It looks like AFA has failed. A Bill has been introduced in the Senate to establish the Tea Board of Kenya. I believe the problem is the KTDA, but not creating a board. The Government must focus more on dealing with cash crops. You cannot have a cow that you keep on milking, but you do not feed it. It will die. That is what has happened to these cash crops like coffee, tea and sugar- cane. Where I come from, majority of our people are sugar-cane farmers. Sugar died long time ago. Nobody speaks about it. It has been dead for some time. I am very happy because the other day I was watching television and the receiver manager who has taken over the Mumias Sugar Company Limited said that he will revive it and run it for two years. That was a good statement that really made me very happy. The amount of money that people are paid when they take their sugar- cane to those factories cannot pay school fees for their children, leave alone feeding them. People are suffering in this country because the economy is majorly agriculture."
}