Cherarkey K Samson

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to second this important Bill by the distinguished Senator for Kericho County, Sen. Cheruiyot. He has done excellently in terms of giving out the background of what ails the tea sector. Madam Temporary Speaker, from the onset, the tea sector has been left at the expense of a liturgy and cartels who ensure that farmers, anywhere you go – from Bomet, Kericho, Nandi or even the former central province, among other areas that grow tea – there are always complains. Madam Temporary Speaker, as Sen. Cheruiyot has said clearly, we rely on tea. Out of ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we look forward in the future, even as we struggle to devolve even maize – because we plant both maize and tea – to have the headquarters maybe in Eldoret. We should also have Kenya Cooperatives Creameries (KCC) Headquarters in Elgeyo Marakwet so that we avoid the clogging that we experience here in Nairobi because the real action and the spirit of devolution happens there. In terms of the functions of the authority, I agree entirely with most of it. Agriculture is fully devolved. When the Cabinet Secretary comes in, I agree with the Mover of the ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Licensing tea dealers is very important. This is because there are people who sit in London and imagine that they can buy our tea at the price they want. There are people who are stretching themselves in the wide beaches of Mombasa, waiting like predators, reap maximum from our tea. The least person who benefits on the food chain is the tea farmer. There are people whose business is brokerage. They just exploit tea farmers in Mombasa. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Tea is one of the highly taxed products, with almost 37 forms of taxation. There is even a matter in court – I do not know whether it has been disposed of - where the County Government of Mombasa did not want to add another levy on the tea because it a gateway of exporting our tea in this Republic. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Over taxation has ensured that farmers do not get value for what they work hard for. Farmers get injured and face many other challenges. Small-scale farmers and people who work in the tea sector get injured during pruning and so on. This licensing will weed out the rogue ‘tenderpreneurs’, brokers and other cartels that exploit tea farmers at any given time. The other important point I want to add is on provision of advisory services on tea production and quality enhancement. That is very crucial because there was introduction of purple tea. Many people are not happy because they do ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: revenue, but we are facing stiff competition from other countries in the world that grow tea, like Ethiopia, Brazil, among others. Therefore, we must enhance our quality. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: When you go to a tea growing area like Kisii, land is becoming smaller and it is no longer productive. As the land is being used for other development than growing tea, we should also work on research to grow tea of higher quality tea. Whenever we travel across the world and get tea that originates from Kenya, we feel at home, and as they say: “Every time is tea time.” Advisory services are very crucial in tea production. That is why even in other agricultural activities we need extension officers. I hope that when this Bill is enacted, counties ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam, Temporary Speaker, your county and mine grow sugarcane. Through the Kenya Privatization Commission, we are trying to have a bipartisan approach on how to ensure that the problems facing sugarcane farmers are addressed. Therefore, we do not expect the Cabinet Secretary at the national level to create a way of ensuring advisory services to the tea farmers. We hope the counties are listening and keen on this matter. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Research is very key. We should even do mapping of soil samples, such that farmers who want to grow purple tea and the ordinary tea may know what to grow. Farmers even in my own county, for example, should have somebody to tell them the type of soil that is best for growing purple tea; be it loam soil, red soil or clay soil. We need this research to be done extensively such that we know the acidity is required. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me now address myself to the composition of the board of the authority. This is where ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: In the spirit of the new dispensation of prioritising the opinion and public participation, we should ensure that it has many people like a chairperson appointed by the President or the Permanent Secretary (PS), and the seven persons appointed by the Council of Governors (CoG) representing the top seven tea-growing counties. It would be very important, because now we have statistics. We might review at some point because other counties are picking up growing of tea. view