Daniel Kitonga Maanzo

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• 6 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: One of the parliamentary committees which visited South Korea realised that our coffee is being consumed in tonnes in Korea and many other parts of the eastern world. Therefore, it is true that if we organise ourselves and remove the brokers who have always been the biggest problem, farmers will benefit. We are encouraging farmers to market coffee directly, but there 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
• 6 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: must be an organisation of some sort, mostly a cooperative that is well organised to ensure that the farmer who is the producer does not suffer because that seems to have been the problem. view
• 6 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: One of the issues is a database and value addition production. I will give an example of a great Kenyan called Hon. Joseph Nyagah, who was one time in the Ministry of Cooperatives. I recently met him in Embu. He is farming chicken in a big way and supplying eggs and many people are looking at what he is doing. However, is this information shared? How does he connect with similar farmers so that they can put together whatever they have produced and have a strategy of marketing their products outside the country? view
• 6 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Why are we importing eggs in Kenya when we have so many farmers rearing chicken? Why are we buying sugar when we have sugarcane farmers in this country? Uganda is self- sustaining in sugar production. We are not and we are finding ourselves buying maize from outside the country when we have many farmers in the Rift Valley who should have an organised system of ensuring that their maize is produced, processed, there is value addition, it is sold locally and to international markets. view
• 6 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: So, there is a real big challenge in the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Ministry of Industrialisation and Enterprise Development in terms of those who deal with production, marketing and value addition. When doing our budgeting, we can look at the infrastructure and see how best these farmers can secure markets out there. I think Government funding is not sufficient. Therefore, we need to go deeper and ensure there is sustainability of what we do. All farmers produce outputs in one way or another and they market their products and ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: This Motion by Dr. John Mutunga is great and I have a lot of respect for him. He is very well known in this particular field. I believe he should lead once this Motion goes through so that farmers in the country can start organisations. He is an expert and comes from an area where people run cooperatives very well. In fact, almost 90 per cent of all the Ministers of Cooperatives in this country since Independence have come from his home ground. This includes Senator Ndwiga who is very experienced and is within the precincts of Parliament. We can ... view
• 6 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support. view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute on this important Motion. Policy informs the making of law. Our Constitution, in Article 55, is clear that this matter of training young people is mandatory. Therefore, at some point, we should graduate this Motion into law, so that we have equilibrium to ensure that those who do not make it to university, and who may be endowed with talent in technology, can access training and become useful in many aspects of life. One of the challenges is that we are bringing in a lot of manufactured goods ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Kenya if we concentrate on these courses. You will realise that training is devolved and most technical institutes are under the county governments. I hope we can make a policy so that the national Government is able to work with counties. We need to ensure that each county has a minimum number of training institutes specialising in a particular area even if it is weaving. The view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: should be for the world market. There are areas in Kenya where the people are talented in pottery and through training, this can be refined. I support this great initiative which will encourage our youths to diversify into other areas to earn a living. This will increase the par capital of this country through taxes since these businesses will be recognised and work will be seen. We should also look for international markets, so that our products can be sold out there. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view