Amason Kingi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: (b) The Government has taken the following measures to address possible losses to fish farmers:- view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: (i) ensuring that there are proper fish ponds and construction based on a developed suitability mapping by technical officers in our Ministry; view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: (ii) my Ministry is developing mini-processing plants across the country for cold storage and processing; view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: (iii) we are encouraging the formation of clusters of farmers so that delivery of services including training on quality control, pond management and marketing is done; view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: (iv) the Ministry is encouraging formation of a National Aquaculture Association for fish farmers for marketing and information delivery/service on quality standards; and, view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: (v) the Ministry is developing guidelines to enable farmed fish in Kenya to be exported to non-European Union countries. Additionally, we are developing an Evaluation and Monitoring Programme to enable Kenya initiate a certification process that would allow farmed fish to be exported to the European Union countries. view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: (c) The Government has the Ocean and Fisheries Policy in place to ensure that the quality of water, fingerlings and feeds used by the fish farmers meet the required threshold. From the Oceans and Fisheries Policy, my Ministry has, in addition, developed a National Aquaculture Policy and a National Aquaculture Strategy, all addressing the quality of our final aquaculture products. Water used for aquaculture is analyzed for suitability after every three months. The Fisheries Management and Development Bill is in the final stages of development to be brought to this House. view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will not only add the facilities around the lake region, but we will do so across the aquaculture region. At the moment, we cover about 160 constituencies. In these regions we intend to construct mini cold storages and processing plants. Therefore, as we do this we will also increase the number of cold storages around the Lake Victoria region. Under the East African Community (EAC) arrangement, we will oversee the construction of cold storages being funded through the EAC arrangement. view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before we could proceed to construct these facilities, we had to get specifications from the Ministry of Public Works. That has been concluded because we have the specifications and we need to roll out a tender, so that the successful bidder can start immediately to construct these plants, so that the losses on fishermen can be minimized. view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a Ministry, we are encouraging fishermen to come into clusters and form co-operatives that will enable them access loans. Also, there are other Government funds that fishermen can actually access including the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) which I believe they can be able to--- view