Gideon Ndambuki

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 901 to 910 of 1161.

• 29 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will do the consultation and come back to the House. view
• 29 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have consulted the Attorney-General and he has requested me to forward all the information to him tomorrow and in seven days, he will give us a response. view
• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the world coffee prices have been rising significantly for the last three years, steadily raising the country's earnings. (b) I am further aware that coffee farmers in Kenya have not been reaping good returns from coffee earnings as deserved. (c) My Ministry, together with other stakeholders, is undertaking the following measures to promote coffee in the international market to fetch better prices. (i) Developing a Kenya coffee brand code. (ii) Undertaking a rigorous grower sensitisation programme. (iii) We have already allocated Kshs500 million for coffee improvement under ... view
• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not talking about the future. I am talking about now. I have figures to support what I said. In 2005/2006, we sold 48,835 metric tonnes at a October 28, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3031 value of Kshs9.7 billion. In 2006/2007, we sold 53,000 metric tonnes at Kshs8.7 billion. Up to September 2008, we had already sold 42,000 metric tonnes at Kshs9 billion. So, I am not talking about the future. I am talking about now, because the prices have been going up. If you look at the auction, the average in the last three years ... view
• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to give the hon. Member the interventions the Government has carried out in the last three years. They include Kshs3.2 billion which was written off. Secondly, we have already injected Kshs500 million into coffee production. Thirdly, the Government is already providing fertilizer at subsidized prices. Therefore, the Government is doing quite a bit on this issue. view
• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am very much aware that we are talking of coffee fertilizer. The fertilizer which is being brought in by the Government is not only for cereal crops, but also is for tea and coffee farming. It is going to be subsidized fertilizer. view
• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, even giving the loan at the interest rate we are giving at should be taken as a subsidy. If any other farmer borrows, he will not do so at the rate he was talking about. He will borrow at a higher rate, but here a coffee loan is being given at a 3032 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 28, 2008 5 per cent interest rate. view
• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not the Government that has brought the prices of coffee down; they dropped because of forces in the international market in 1987 and 1988. It came down from 150,000 metric tonnes, which Kenya used to sell, to 50,000 metric tonnes, which we are now selling. It is not of our own making! Again, when the prices went down, our farmers ignored the crop; they stopped attending to it they way the had been doing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the problem is also not by the Government; it is because of the foreign exchange rate. ... view
• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry is really working on that and in the next four months, Kenya will market its coffee in a Kenyan brand. view
• 28 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just wanted to say that out, of the Kshs500 million we are injecting, half of it will be used to market coffee overseas. view