Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on hon. Shebesh’s clarification about KARI, it is true that KARI is a research institution. The first farm reported the symptoms of this disease last year in Naivasha. Scientists from KARI went to the field and they have already come up with a seed that is resistant to the disease. The disease resistant seed has been planted amongst the seed that has been affected but the former has not been affected by anything. So, that is the seed we have earmarked for distribution to farmers as we go on. view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: ---(Off record) view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, according to the information that we have been given by the scientists, this is neither a seed-borne nor a soil-borne disease. It is a virus that is affecting the maize crop. One of the diseases has been in this country since the 1930s. It is only that the virus has not been that strong. It has now been combined--- view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was saying that this is neither a seed-borne nor soil-borne disease. Researchers are still on it. So far, they have said that it is a virus. view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Pesa has requested me to table the reports by KARI and KEPHIS. I will get the reports from KEPHIS and KARI and table them in this House for everybody to know that it is not--- view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Mungatana said that it could be sabotage. Up to now, we have not established the cause of the problem. We are still in the initial stage of the investigation. So, we should wait until we get the full report, which we will bring to this House for everybody to know the cause of the problem. view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Pesa asked for the reports from KEPHIS and KARI, and I said that I will bring those reports. view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On hon. Mungatana’s request for clarification, I was saying that we have not yet established whether there is sabotage or not but all avenues are being pursued to establish what is happening. view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, another way of reducing the disease is embracing crop rotation. Farmers have been planting maize on the same farms year in, year out. They do not plant anything else. We are ready to provide farmers with seeds of other crops. We are ready to provide other types of crops. For example, in the area of Bomet they need potatoes and beans--- view
• 6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sorry I have not said anything like that. I can only say we need to also practice crop rotation in what we are doing. It is not the Ministry of Agriculture which sought the Kshs17 billion. Go and check who did that. We still stand by our position that we are not ready to import any maize into this country until we buy all the maize from the farmers. Go and find out who asked for that money. It is not us. view