Cherarkey K Samson

All parliamentary appearances

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• 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
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: With the debate of diversification, other counties might decide to diverse to something else in terms of crop diversification and production. It is something we will tier and ensure the law regulates time to time, so that we use statistics such that when these people are nominated by the CoG, they are very important. The largest number of tea growers will give voice to farmers and ensure that it is going. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: I want to go straight to Clause 8 on the powers of the board. They enter contracts, manage and control assets of the authority and that is why you find famers even do not know the property they own. There is one example in Nandi Sub-County that farmers have been able to manage their own assets. They have assets in Nandi Town. They are doing serious investments in that town. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: We have seen allegations of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and National Housing Corporation. There are allegations facing the famous Ekeza Sacco where people are investing on behalf of others yet they themselves do not disclose and do not manage properly. They take advantage because an average age of a Kenyan farmer, according to the statistics that have been provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and other institutions like the African Development Bank, it is between 60 to 66 years. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: These tea farmers. Most of them stay in villages and they are taken advantage of by some cartels. They can come and maybe use balance sheets, statements of accounts, the annual general meeting and maybe the people do not understand the procedures the way we understand them as provided by the Companies Act. It is very important that when we manage, control and administer the assets of the authority, these investments should be relooked at and ensure we go forward. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: I do not know whether we want to adjourn or my time is almost up. I am also passionate about this thing because these are some of the issues, the way Sen. Aaron Cheruiyot is passionate about them. I am almost crying because these are the problems that when you walk anywhere in your county, the issue is bonus. We do not have a voice, the poorest farmers are tea farmers. Therefore, I am so passionate about it in these issues. view