Cecily Mbarire

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this very important Bill. As you rightly put it, I remember the day you spoke about AFA and you were very passionate about it. You gave us very good advice on reviving our agriculture in general. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I really wanted to support this Bill. I will support it 100 per cent although I need many amendments to be done to it for us to protect the real and true farmer. view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Let us be sincere in our contributions. If transporting tea from Kericho costs a certain amount of money, whether it is auctioned in Kericho or transported to Mombasa to be transported all over the world, it will still be the same. So, let it be auctioned from where the farmers are and then transported to Mombasa to be ferried to different locations of this world. view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to tell the House that Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 marginalised a big chunk of this country, namely, 80 per cent which constitutes pastoralist regions. That is why we have the Kenya Sugar Board and many other boards that deal with crop products leaving out other forms of farming, for instance, livestock farming in the pastoralist regions. We have the National Irrigation Board, the National Cereals and Produce Board, the Kenya Sisal Board, the Coffee Board of Kenya, the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya, the Cotton Board of Kenya, the Kenya Sugar Authority and the ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: We will protect tea farmers, but they should reciprocate by making sure that they support us when we bring Bills, which I will soon do, to protect our livestock farming. We also need to protect those who cannot survive on crop farming because they have wildlife in their regions. All of these contribute to the economy of this country. Agriculture is the backbone of our country’s economy. Tea farming alone is employing five million Kenyans. If five million Kenyans lose jobs the way jobs were lost in the sisal and cotton industries, then we will be facing a disaster as ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: . Our sheep are dying in masses and we do not have any particular authority or board to protect us. We do not know the cure for that disease. We do not know where to run to. We do not have a research organisation that we can run to, to save our livestock. As much as we will save the tea farmers from the cartels at the KTDA, livestock farmers also need to be saved. I urge the Members from the pastoralist regions to start preparing as many Bills as possible to protect our pastoralist regions which make up 80 ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.44(2)(c), I wish to request for a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock regarding the declining prices of milk and milk products in the country. Dairy farming is becoming highly unsustainable as a result of milk and milk products’ price volatility where the cost of production continues to increase while prices of raw milk are ever declining. Dairy farmers have been counting losses for the last one year following the view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: falling of prices of raw milk by about Kshs14 - that is from Kshs35 a litre and currently retailing at Kshs25 a litre, something that is being witnessed in most parts of the country. It is unfortunate that our farmers are not protected from such challenges where there is failure to regulate milk prices as well as controlling the importation of milk and milk products into the country that has flooded the market thus exposing local dairy farmers to unfair competition and exploitation. view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it is against this background that I seek your indulgence in referring this matter to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to inquire into it and report soon on: (i) The cause of the declining prices of raw milk in the country for the last one year from Kshs35 to the current Kshs25. It has gone as low as Kshs20 in some places. I have been told that it is Kshs17 in Kisii County. (ii) How the importation of milk and milk products into the country from Uganda, that has exposed local milk farmers to unfair competition, ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I want to request that you consider that this Statement be taken as a full inquiry by the Committee and, probably, even bring onboard the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co-operatives because of the trade issues between us and Uganda. view