Henry Kosgey

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Vote of the Ministry of Agriculture. view
• 25 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, agriculture ranks second after education as a sector that the Government should put more money in. This is the only way we can achieve food security in this country. For a very a long time in Kenya, we have had cycles of drought and food insecurity in certain areas. This has almost become a permanent fixture; it is not a tenable situation. It is now almost 47 years after Independence; by now, we should have established methods of ensuring that no Kenyan starves. Quite often we have talked of irrigation as the answer to our ... view
• 25 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to speak about a few crops such as maize, sugarcane and wheat. I come from an area where these three crops are grown. Farmers make an effort to grow maize, wheat and even sugarcane. However, marketing of this produce becomes a challenge to them. If they cannot sell their produce on time, you will find that the following year, production of the same crops suffers. Year in, year out, when there is a good yield of maize, farmers make delivers and wait for a number of months before they are paid. If we ... view
• 25 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with respect to wheat, we should not kill wheat production in Kenya. This is a very serious thing. We should not say because production of wheat in Kenya is, probably, more expensive than production of wheat in other countries, therefore, we should import wheat. We should not abandon production of wheat in this country. We should do everything possible even if it means subsidizing wheat production in Kenya to continue producing it. If our consumption of wheat is merely about 15 to 20 million bags and our production is about four million bags, you will ... view
• 25 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I undertake to inform the Minister for Agriculture that this Ministerial Statement is urgently required. view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: I will inform her today and I hope that the Ministerial Statement will be issued early next week, maybe on Tuesday or Wednesday. view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: I know the Minister for Medical Services is out of the country but as soon as he arrives, I will communicate. I will also appreciate if that detailed request for a Statement could be availed to me for onward transmission to the Minister. view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 18 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: I am not sure, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view