Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1621 to 1630 of 1671.

• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I second. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the chance to speak and support this Motion. I come from Trans Nzoia County, in fact, I have just come from there this morning. I want to draw the attention of this House to the fact that the ordinary farmer in Trans Nzoia is a poor suffering person because fertilizers have been imported at the wrong time. As the Mover of this Motion mentioned, you cannot imagine at this time of the year that farmers in Trans Nzoia have not received CAN fertilizer, which is actually used for topdressing. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, secondly, I have gone to the National Cereals and Produce Board and have been told that they are not importers. Let me make that correction. It is the Ministry of Agriculture that is involved and they only use the NCPB because it has a countrywide network for distribution. That is why the Mover of this Motion has made it very clear that the best thing we can do for this country, because of what we have gone through in the past, is to have an authority for importing fertilizer and in this way we will be able ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thirdly, the question of bringing in fertilizers late will lead to poor harvests. If in June the Ministry has not distributed fertiliser, what happens? Of course you will have a poor yield and that will lead to poor harvest; naturally we are going to have hunger in this country. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I think there is a conspiracy between people at the Ministry and the importers. Let us make it very clear. The people in the Ministry who are responsible for importation of fertilizer have formed a cartel with importers. They make things so difficult that we have very poor yields. The end result of that is for us now to import maize – some of which is not for human consumption. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: I want to say that the Mover of the Motion was in time. This is the time when this House should approve this Motion, so that we are able to have an authority that is responsible for importation of fertilizer, and one that is accountable and responsive. This is because we plant maize according to the season. In June or September, the authority will be making arrangements to import fertilizer. So, we want an authority that is actually responsive, accountable and that knows the season cycle; the rainy season keeps on changing. I think the Mover was quite right. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: The other thing that I want to say is that this year the Deputy President had to come in and I want to thank him. He came in and asked the Ministry of Agriculture to bring in subsidised fertiliser. Had he not done that, we would not have even got the little that we are going to produce. I want to support this Motion and ask the House to support it because it is very timely. Through it, we will be able to get an authority that will be answerable to the farmers. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, it is also important for us to note that farmers have been asking for subsidies. We even do not want subsidies; give us the fertiliser on time. We will produce enough food. We will sell the food to other people who do not produce it, and we will get back our money. We do not even need a subsidy. What we need is the fertiliser to come on time so that we can produce enough food and be able to go into commercial farming. If you go to North Rift you will see that Uasin Gishu, Trans ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: The seventh thing that I want to say is that by so doing this Government will have what we call a food policy. I can tell you for a fact that this country does not have a food policy, because we have people who have no idea about what happens in the countryside. I want to support the Motion, so that farmers can be encouraged to get into commercial farming and help us to have this problem of hunger sorted out. We do not want to get into what we have gotten into in the past. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, lastly, I am happy that the President mentioned irrigation and asked why we do not do what we know first instead of experimenting. When we combine Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu and parts of western Kenya, we have enough land to produce enough food for the rest of the country instead of wasting money in getting into other programmes that I know will not succeed. We are going to use our meager resources to get into irrigation and bring in fertilizers. view