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"speaker_name": "Ikolomani, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Benard Shinali",
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"content": "but only when volumes are above the normal projections. When such a situation occurs, overtime is paid as per the Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) guidelines. Where casuals or business staff are engaged, depending on work demands. The earnings are as per the Government Labour Guidelines, which categorise regions. The New KCC strictly, adheres to the guidelines in all locations, including Sotik factory. Additionally, the Member wanted to know the measures put in place to create participation by the dairy farmers to be more involved in the process of the New KCC and its success. On this, the Ministry of Co-operatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development is undertaking the following measures to ensure the protection of members' funds: 1. The New KCC has elaborate independent extension services groups run by farmers through their appointed leadership in various clusters across the country and the Sotik region has a very strong extension group. 2. The New KCC leadership engages farmers regularly through its raw milk procurement and Extension Services Department, which is a fully operational department that coordinates all the new KCC farmers through their leadership and various farmers' cooperatives and even directly to individual farmers. 3. The top leadership of KCC, which includes the Managing Director to their Board of Directors, occasionally engage with their farmers and their leadership across the entire country, where Sotik region farmers are among the stakeholders that are involved in such forums. The next response seeks to address a report on products produced at the Sotik Milk Processing Plant and plans in place to vary the type of products manufactured, including plans for the maintenance of the machines processing products such as Mala . In this regard, Sotik Factory processes and packages fresh milk, 24-hour shelf life, extended shelf life, 90-day shelf life and long-life milk products with a one-year shelf life. The milk products in the Sotik Factory are in the following Stop Keeping Units: 1. Tetra Fino Aseptic: Gold Crown, KCC Fresh and Taifa. 2. Tetra Classic Aseptic: Gold Crown, KCC Fresh, Taifa and Pupils Access to Community Health (Pacoh). 3. Extended Shelf Life: Fresh 500ml, Gold 200ml and Gold 500ml. 4. Fresh Milk: (10 and 20 litres), Filpack 200ml, Filpack Gold 500ml, Filpack Fresh 500ml, Filpack 500ml, Taifa and Filpack 200ml). The new KCC machine maintenance is undertaken as per the best maintenance practices as per equipment manufacturers' guidelines and is being implemented across all factories, including Sotik. Additionally, mala, a new KCC product, is processed in Dandora and Eldoret factories that have full infrastructure for its processing, fermentation and packaging but are distributed to all KCC sales depots. Sotik sales depot gets mala from Eldoret and Kisumu factories, while the mala from Dandora is distributed to the following sales depots: Nairobi, Nakuru, Nanyuki and Mombasa. Hon. Temporary Speaker, attached is the response from the Cabinet Secretary and annexures for transmission to the Hon. Member. Thank you."
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