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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I also rise to support this report of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, which is a response to the Petition that was lodged in the Senate by Kerich Kiprono Hillary on the 12th June, 2023. I have noted some procedural innovations, which I am happy about. Previously, when committees had a report responding to a petitioner, the report would just be laid and that ends there. There could just be some general comments and that would be the end of it. I am happy that the House has innovated. When there is a Petition or a report on a Petition, it is brought to this House as a Motion for adoption. This gives it further effect, because previously, the committee would just respond to the petitioner without any resolution of the House. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also note that petitions are meant to be resolved within a period of 60 to 90 days maximum, with extension. This Petition has taken some time, but I am happy that the committee has come back with a report. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "In its conclusion, the committee has given very clear action that should be undertaken by the Ministry for Agriculture and Livestock Development and the Bomet County Government to respond to the prayers that were put to the Senate by Mr. Kerich Kiprono Hillary. Again, because these are innovations, how I wish that this report would have a matrix, so that we know specifically what the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and Bomet County Government should each do. Agriculture is a shared concurrent function between the national and county governments. So, if we do not assign clear responsibility, you end up with a situation where everyone assumes someone else is doing something, but they end up doing nothing. All in all, it is good that we have responded and directed the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development to establish programmes to ensure that there is financial assistance to the farmers who lost their crop. For example, in 2012, there was a 90 per cent crop failure because of the MLND. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is something happening in county governments that this Senate must address. At the onset of devolution, we had Farmers' Training Colleges (FTCs) across the country. I had one farmers training college in my county of Homa Bay. Then when this ambition and thirst for universities came, we converted the FTC to a university, the Tom Mboya University; a beautiful institution with very good infrastructure. I believe it shall be the host for the next devolution conference. However, we did not provide an alternative for training of farmers. If today you were to ask the Senator of Bungoma County, Sen. Wafula, to make for you a dish called, Lasagna he cannot because he does not even know what it is. He has no idea how it looks like. Of course, if you told him to make ugali, he would because he has seen it being made, and perhaps his mother taught him how to do so. If his mother did not, then he taught himself how to make it in campus because comrades know how to take care of themselves. The reason I am giving this illustration is that if someone does not teach you how to make Lasagna, you will probably never know how to make it. If someone does not teach you crop husbandry, you will fumble and probably not know how to undertake proper crop or animal husbandry. Our children, the ones living here in Nairobi may not know what we went through as we were growing up. I told my son some time back that in mornings such as this, I would have already gone to the farm to weed, came back milked the cows and taken the donkeys to the lake to fetch water. He told me “Daddy, I cannot do those things because we do not have a donkey, a cow or a farm.” If we expect our children to understand crop or animal husbandry, without teaching them, then we will be expecting too much. The future of agriculture is bleak in this country because we have killed the units, colleges and the places where someone who comes from a fish breeding area can go and learn how coffee is grown. Madam Temporary Speaker, you cannot know how to take care of a cow if you are not taught. The natural instinct that God gave humans is how to take care of a human beings, not how to take care, feed or milk a cow. We must bring back our FTCs and they must not be seen as places for retirees. That once someone has retired in Nairobi City The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "County, they go to an FTC, so that they can start a poultry project, which then collapses once their pension runs out. It should target young people. Madam Temporary Speaker, the fishermen in my area are still using traditional hunting and gathering techniques. They are investing nothing in the lake, but expecting that, at the end of the day, they will have a full catch. It has been like that for thousands if not millions of years That has been how humanity has approached fishing. They believe that God has put fish in the lake, rivers and streams, and our job is to go there with a hook and catch. However, recently, an American investor called Victory Farms came up with cage fish farming, putting cages in the lake that we have had for millions of years. He put fish in those cages in the lake, giving them food and controlling the environment in which they thrive. Today, Victory Farms is generating Kshs5 billion gross revenue in a year in a far corner of Suba. Almost the same revenue that the County Government of Homa Bay has at its disposal. Why? They brought innovation, science, technology and people who had been taken to school to study how fish breeds, grows and how it can be taken care of. We must bring back farmers training colleges. Planting of maize is not just something you wake up and do. In my community, we would of course plough the fields with oxen ploughs. That in itself is an art. To manage six cows tethered on a yoke, pulling one plough and to be able to do that with straight lines for acres upon acres, those were traditional techniques, which I do not know who will teach them. Perhaps mechanisation has made it obsolete. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I go to the village, I am told that the farms that were tilled using tractors tend to turn the soil too deep. As a result, it brings up certain pests that are buried further down. Our people have got very interesting knowledge. They will tell you this farm was ploughed using a tractor, this farm was ploughed using an ox. Now, the skills of oxen ploughing are virtually dead. I do not think it used to be taught in farmers' training colleges. Now, after you have ploughed your farm, we would then plant seed, and that seed would not come from a shop. The seed would be the residue from the last harvest. What our people would do is if you got a good crop, you would choose the biggest corn or the biggest ears of maize, then you would dry it and put ash on it. Then you would stick it on the roof which was a grass-thatched. Particularly where there is a kitchen, so that for the entire year, the smoke would bellow, that seed would harden, and it would not be attacked by weevils or any other pests, so that the next season, you could plant it. There are now innovations. There are now seeds that can grow in different areas, but our people do not have the knowledge because they do not have access to farming training and innovations that they are supposed to get through the county governments. Once you have planted the seed, you come back to weed your farm, and you find your farm has the beautiful purple foliage of a weed called striga. There is no other weed that is as beautiful, but as damaging as striga. The striga weed, just like the MLND that we are discussing right now, affects Bomet and Homa Bay counties. However, one other big pest that we have to contend with in our regions is that very beautiful purple flower. When you are driving past or The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "when you are passing a farm, you will be amazed. This is a beautiful farm, very beautiful purple flowers, but that is the biggest pest that we have to contend with. For some time, the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) based in Mbita Town in Homa Bay County tried to help farmers to deal with the striga menace. The only solution that seems to work, so far, is for farmers to pull out the striga at an early age. Striga seeds propagate through the roots. If you do not pull out the entire thing from the roots, then it continues to propagate. The striga weed seeds grow very deep. Our people are saying that when you use a tractor to plough, it brings up the seeds and then you have got beautiful purple foliage of a pest. Our people did not know how to deal with striga and it really stunts maize. It would affect production by more than 60 per cent. It also drives up the cost of producing an acre because you have to weed not just once, but twice and yet we have the herbicides. Our people do not know how to use herbicides. They cannot imagine that there is something that you can spray in your farm to kill weeds and preserve the maize. They can only do that through demonstration farms and training. They also do not know that you can use fertilizer because naturally our soil is fertile. Someone should demonstrate to them that when you use fertilizer, then your production goes higher. A training needs to be done all the way through the chain, including harvesting. You harvest your maize, take it to the market and then you are told it has got aflatoxin. As a person who grew up in the village going through these processes, I can tell you I do not know how aflatoxin looks like. I do not know whether anyone in this House can look visually at maize and say this one has got aflatoxin and this one does not have aflatoxin. Madam Temporary Speaker, we would harvest, gather everything, put them on donkey drawn carriages, put them in a granary, leave them in a granary and put some little ash on them, so that they can survive to the next harvest. When you take your maize to the market, you are told it has aflatoxin. Can someone come and teach us how aflatoxin looks like? Can someone come and tell us what to do with our soil because I hear that aflatoxin comes from the soil. What should we do so that that aflatoxin does not get into the maize, so that our maize can get to the market? Madam Temporary Speaker for last 10 years the FTCs have died. We must now push for the revival of them. When we will be coming to Homa Bay, if we are doing the Devolution Conference at Tom Mboya University College, let us remember that was a farmer’s training college. Therefore, for the benefit of farmers in Bomet and in other counties, let us push. If each county cannot do an FTC, let us then have regional centres of excellence where our farmers can be taught what to do. We passed a law in this House called the Warehouse Receipt System. We have a Warehouse Receipt Systems Council in this country. The Warehouse Receipt System was supposed to move maize farmers from peasant subsistence farmers to people who could use their produce as collateral. You go harvest your maize, you have been trained how to tell whether it has aflatoxin or not, take it to a certified warehouse, keep your 100 bags of maize in that certified warehouse and you are given a warehouse receipt. With that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "warehouse receipt, your child should never be sent away from school because it is as good as cash. To what extent have our farmers understood that concept or is it just the big millers and farmers, who are taking advantage of that situation? Taking advantage of good storage facilities offered by the National Cereal and Produce Board (NCPB). I believe that they have one of the registered warehouses where you can make your depository of crop and get a warehouse receipt. Since I sit with Sen. Wakoli in the Committee on Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, it is time for this House to query, to what extent has a warehouse receipt system been adopted in this country? What is the level of understanding or appreciation of our farmers? Maize farmers walk around as if they are the poorest people. We can only fix that by bringing them back to the cash economy. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I finalize, because this is a Petition, and already the committee has given directives, for me, my only emphasis is let us help our farmers to get the best practice, science and innovations that can help them to do agriculture, not just as a hobby, but as a cash and economically empowering activity. Let us also push the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development because we do not have a clear agricultural sector strategy in this country. When the late President Hon. Mwai Kibaki took over, we had the strategy for revitalisation of agriculture. Through the strategy for revitalisation of agriculture, we collapsed all the many parastatals and put up one thing called the Agriculture Food Fisheries Authority (AFFA). Ten years later, from AFFA, we have divested fishery, livestock, tea, coffee and milk. We have reversed everything that the Kibaki’s Government put forth. That was what was going to help us realise Vision 2030. Today, we do not have a coherent plan. The last one was called Agricultural Sector Transformation and Growth Strategy that was launched by either hon. Munya or Linturi. The current Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development should come to this House and tell us what is the overarching agricultural sector strategy. How does it fit into the Vision 2030? We need to ensure that our farmers are not just beggars. That our farmers, particularly women and youth, can also be part of the cash economy. Madam Temporary Speaker, with that, I support. Thank you."
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"content": " Sen. Mundigi."
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"content": "Asante, Bi. Spika wa Muda kwa kunipa ruhusa nichangie Hoja inayoendelea kuhusu Kamati ya Kilimo ambayo mimi ni Naibu Mwenyekiti. Katika kaunti 47 za Kenya, kilimo kiko mstari wa kwanza. Vyakula muhimu Kenya ni ugali na mchele. Mambo hayo yote yametokea kwa sababu kilimo cha mahindi na mchele hakipewi kipao mbele. Yale tunayoyachambua hapa yameendelea kwa muda wa miaka kumi na miwili. Ni ajabu kwani tumechambua mambo ya kilimo kwa miaka mingi. Tunajua kwamba kilimo kimepewa kipao mbele. Siku hizi watu wote; wakubwa na wadogo, mawaziri na watoto wa shule--- Tunawaelimisha vijana wetu kwamba wakikosa kazi wajishughulishe na mambo ya kilimo. Bi. Spika wa Muda, tunaongea kuhusu kilimo cha mahindi na yale mambo yanayoendelea katika kaunti ya Bomet. Nakumbusha Seneti kwamba wakati wa zamani The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Hayati Rais Moi alikuwa anaongoza nchi. Tunakumbuka vizuri kulikuwa na Agricultural Extension Officers ambao walifunza watu kuhusu mmomonyoko wa udongo, kupanda miti na uchimbaji wa mitaro. Kilimo cha wakati huu kiko na shida. Tukishikilia kilimo vizuri, tutaishi vizuri kwani mtu akikosa mshahara na anaweza kuishi kwa pesa kidogo. Nakumbuka vizuri wakati tulichaguliwa mwaka 2022 kulikuwa na janga la njaa lakini Mungu akatusaidia na mvua ikanyesha. Nakumbua tulikuta unga wa mahindi ukiuzwa shilingi mia mbili na kumi. Wakati mvua ilinyesha na kilimo kikafanikiwa, unga sasa hivi unauzwa shilingi mia moja na thelathini. Kama Mungu alitusaidia, watu wa kilimo upande wa Serikali wangetusaidia kwa kutupatia mbegu nzuri, kuchimba mabawa ya maji na kutupatia pembejeo za kilimo cha mahindi, hatungesikia yale mambo yaliyofanyika katika kaunti hiyo. Tumechangia na kusema kwamba ni kaunti moja tu ya Bomet. Tunajua kwamba sio kaunti moja bali kaunti nyingi. Ni vile yule Seneta ameona hayo mambo yanaendelea huko kwao na yamefunikwa na hawakushughulika kujua watayatatua vipi. Naunga mkono ripoti ya Kamati ya Kilimo ambayo mimi ni Naibu Mwenyekiti. Tulichambua kisa hicho na tukasema kwamba wale watu wafidiwe. Bi Spika wa Muda, kuna bima ya kilimo. Hakuna mmiliki wa gari hupenda kulipa bima ili alipwe fidia. Vilevile, kwenye kilimo hakuna mkulima angependa kuweka bima ili apate fidia. Ningeomba Serikali inayotuongoza ya Kenya Kwanza iweke kipao mbele masuala ya kilimo, hasa upandaji wa mahindi. Mchele unapanwa katika Kaunti ya Kirinyaga na kaunti zingine pia. Hivi sasa kaunti ya Kirinyaga kuna wadudu wengi. Ilhali kuna agricultural officers ambao wameshindwa kupambana na wadudu hawa. Hili jambo haliko Kirinyaga pekee, wakulima wa Kisumu pia wanapitia changamoto hizi. Ni lazima tuwe na mazungumzo kuhusu vile Serikali itasaidia wakulima. Ajenda ya kwanza ya Serikali ya Kenya Kwanza ni kilimo, halafu afya, ujenzi wa barabara na elimu. Haya masuala yote iletwe pamoja. Kaunti ya Embu kuna chai, kahawa na maembe. Maembe pia imevamiwa na wadudu. Wakulima wanavuna maembe iliyo na ubora wa chini. Kilimo ni muhimu na Serikali inafaa iangalie masuala haya katika kaunti zote 47. Mimi ni Seneta wa Kaunti ya Embu. Wakulima wa Mbeere South na North wanapanda muguka. Mmea huu uko katika Crop Act. Kilimo cha muguka hakijaangaliwa vizuri. Wizara ya kilimo na Mifugo ya Hazina ya Jamhuri ya Kenya haijaangalia mazao ya kilimo ya muguka ili wakulima wanufaike. Serikali inafaa iwaajiri wasomi wa kilimo ili waangalie changamoto za wakulima katika kaunti zetu zote. Kaunti zote nchini zijengewe mabwawa za kunyunyuzia mazao ya wakulima maji. Pia Serikali ijenge water pans na boreholes. Mvua itanyesha hivi karibuni na hakuna hifadhi ya maji. Katiba ya Kenya imeashiria kuwa kilimo kimegatuliwa. Naomba Maseneta wakati wa bajeti tutenge pesa za kusaidia wakulima wakati mimea imepata magonjwa. Kampuni za mbegu zinawapatia wakulima mbegu mbaya, hasa za mahindi na maharagwe. Lazima tujiandae kama Seneti ili tuweze kusaidia wakulima wapate soko ya mazao yao nchi za nje. Hivi majuzi Serikali ilipendekeza chanjo kwa ng’ombe na mbuzi ili watu wa North Eastern wauze nyama ng’ambo. Chanjo siyo mbaya, lakini hakukuwa The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "na public participation. Nchi yetu ni ya demokrasia, lazima kuwe na public participation ili mkulima ama mwananchi ahusishwe. Kaunti ya Embu isaidiwe na maji kutoka kwa mabwawa na madawa. Ningeomba"
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