2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker. I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House, today, Tuesday, 2nd August 2016: - The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly:
The Report of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives on its consideration of the Potatoes Produce and Marketing Bill, Senate Bill No. 22 of 2014.
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2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House today, 21st July 2016:- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly:
The Report of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives on the status of Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project. The Consideration of the Warehouse Receipts System Bill, 2015. Thank you.
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21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives on the status of Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project, laid on the Table of the House today, 21st July 2016. Thank you.
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21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Potato Produce and Marketing (Senate Bill No. 22 of 2014) Bill be now read a Second Time. Hon. Speaker, potato is one of the crops that have been identified by the Crops Act. We have moved from the state of having different bodies for different commodities under the agricultural sector reforms. We collapsed so many bodies that have been standing in for different crops. That has resulted in the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (AFFA) Act of 2013 which amalgamated about 10 bodies including the Coffee Board of Kenya, Tea Board of ...
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21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly:
Act. At the same time, we are also struggling with the Mwongozo Policy of combining existing parastatals to reduce the wage bill which is still so high. It does not make sense to create other bodies yet we are working to reduce them. This Bill talks about regulation, production, packaging, and marketing of potato. All those functions have been devolved in one way or the other. The issue of regulating, producing and marketing of potato does not make any sense. The AFFA Act of 2013 and Section 13 of the Crops Act have covered all that has been mentioned in ...
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21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly:
The Act talks about ways of making potatoes 50 Kilogrammes plus five or 10. We already have developed standards for all the varieties of crops to be just 50 Kgs, whether they are potatoes, sugar or rice. That is the standard that has been developed in the Crops Act which was recently amended. Therefore, the issue of having two regulations whereby one talks about 50 plus five or 10 kilogrammes and the other talks about 50 kilogrammes in the same nation, is a duplication. The final issue is about the funding of the Council. The Bill proposes the Council to ...
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21 Jul 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Letimalo will second me. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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