Aden Bare Duale

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 15581 to 15590 of 17799.

• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to intervene. The laptop project is very important to the Jubilee Government and I will present a report on the progress on Tuesday next week. I will table a report. As the Committee brings a report, I can bring a report to the House on the progress made because I am sure the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology briefed the President on Saturday. I can pick from there, so that the Member can have that report as he waits for a more detailed report from the Committee. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Motion. Supporting this Motion is supporting our farmers. I must say that Kenya is a growing economy. One of the opportunities that we have in this country is to invest in our agricultural sector and ensure that it succeeds. In this very competitive world, where food prices continue to rise, we should ensure that we support our farmers, so that Kenya becomes a surplus food producing country. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: On the issue at hand today, supporting our dairy farmers, I want to say that there is a paradox in terms of the prices the farmer is offered for a litre of milk compared to the price at which a litre of milk sells at the supermarkets. Farmers are offered Kshs27 per litre at the gate of their farms; the price of the very same milk, even for half a litre, is Kshs50 in the supermarkets. This means, therefore, that a litre of milk actually costs Kshs100 on the shelves of the supermarkets. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I just want ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: view because a half-litre of Milk is actually going for Kshs50 and a litre is, therefore, Kshs100. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to ask ourselves, what exactly is happening. A middleman somewhere is taking the benefit that the otherwise very hardworking farmer should have taken. So, at the price of Kshs27 the middleman or the businessman in the chain of supply of milk is the one who makes the product expensive. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: In a free economy, where there is a willing buyer willing seller, the Government might not be able to do much to fix the price of milk and say that it will raise it from 27 per cent to 50 per cent. Indeed, doing so will be giving advantage to the middleman, who will increase the price further and thereby affect the common mwananchi and the child who is out there, and who is supposed to be bought milk at an affordable price. A litre of milk will then go beyond Kshs100 in the supermarket and that will be very ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: I urge hon. Members and the policy makers of this Government to consider investing in milk processing plants in all the milk producing regions. Where I come from where we have a large number of cattle, camels and goats, we should ensure that specific policies are developed to establish milk processing and packaging outlets in all the areas; we can target the wards. Those are the ones that produce a lot of milk. In every ward headquarters, there should be a milk processing and packaging plant owned by a farmers association. That way, the farmer will not have to sell ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: The issue is not to ask the Government to increase the gate price of milk from the farmer; as I said earlier on, price is determined by willing buyer willing seller mechanism. I do not think there is much that can be done in that. Even if that is done, the middlemen in the chain will further increase the price and this will not help the common view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are now making a lot of noise in the country about inflation. One of the products whose prices has really risen right now is milk. While I very strongly support that we, indeed, ensure that value is given to our farmers and not middlemen who do not do much other than just packing the processed milk into lorries and transporting it, we need to organize our farmers to form co-operatives that will be supported to run milk processing plants for the market. In other words, we should break the long chain of middlemen and bring ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I support this Motion. view