Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK) bought 3,370 metric tonnes of dried pyrethrum flowers between the year 2006 and 2009. (b) The current purchase price offered to pyrethrum farmers for dried flowers delivered by the PBK ranges from Kshs58 per kilogramme to Kshs220 per kilogramme depending on the percentage of the pyrethrum content. (c) The Ministry through the PBK is currently paying an advance of Kshs50 per kilogramme of pyrethrum delivered. From April 2010, the PBK will increase the payment to Kshs100 per kilogramme in the short-term and still pay the balance ... view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of brokers, we have talked to farmers. They know exactly what is happening. As I said, the payment is based on the pyrethrin content and the supply of the farmers. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: The lowest, if it is 0.8--- There is too much consultation. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appeal to the farmers not to sell their produce through brokers. They should take it directly to the PBK where they will be paid Kshs50 view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the new management is looking into it. Instead of selling it as raw material, they will be selling it in finished form. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, everybody is aware that the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya almost died off. Now, the Ministry has constituted the board which will improve the production of the crop. Currently, we are only dealing with areas where it is grown in high quantities. I can assure the hon. Member that we will revive the growing of this crop in many parts of the country where it used to grow. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said from the beginning, I would like to assure the pyrethrum farmers that Pyrethrum Board of Kenya is buying pyrethrum products and they should take them to the Board instead of selling them to brokers who are really making money. Everybody should take it to the Board. I assure them that the Board will buy the flowers. view
• 30 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the country is fixated at the present moment at the goings on in this House. This Tenth Parliament has a singular opportunity to go down in history as the Parliament that handed this country proper reforms. I want to plead that between now and tomorrow morning, because the next three days are indeed, that we all rise from self interest. That we banish self interests and think only of what is in the best national interest. This House will go down badly in history if, indeed, it will be that this is the Parliament which had the ... view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am not aware that there was total crop failure in Kinna, Rapsu and Gafarsa Irrigation Schemes in Isiolo South Constituency due to the inappropriate seed variety supplied by the Ministry. But I am aware that in Kinna and Rapsu the rains were below average due to other production factors that are being addressed by the Ministry. (b) The Ministry has no plans to compensate farmers for crop losses due to natural calamities like drought. However, more seeds were sent to them for planting this planting season. view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I do not really agree with the hon. Member that other maize seeds grew well. There are things which go with the highbrid seed; these are things like manure and fertilizer. When we analysed the soil of the area, we found that it had a very low nitrogen and organic carbon and also phosphorous. This could have been corrected by using fertilizer. Now what we have done--- In the last season, farmers did not have a depot where they could get subsidised fertilizer from, but now we are making arrangements for them to get fertilizer at Kinna. view