Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 591 to 600 of 980.

• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the tea industry plays a very important role in the socio-economic development of the country. In the year 2010, the industry generated more than Kshs97 billion in export earnings and, indeed, it is the leading foreign exchange earner for the country. A further Kshs8 billion was generated by the industry in the local tea sales. It also created employment to over three million people along the value chain, either directly or indirectly, and it was also involved in infrastructure development in the rural areas. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the tea industry production is structured in two categories, that is the plantations and the small holder. The small holder category accounts for more than 56 per cent of the total tea production, and is managed through the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Ltd. The small holder tea production was established under the Agricultural Act, Cap. 318 of the Laws of Kenya and managed by the Government in 1960 under the Special Crop Development Authority (SCDA), a body which was replaced by the KTDA in 1964. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am giving the origin of all the issues with regard to tea, so that you can appreciate the predicament in which the Government is in the management of the tea subsector. The KTDA was then privatized in 2000 under the Tea Industry Structural Reform Programme. Prior to the privatization of the subsector, the Government provided extension services to the growers who undertook the processing and marketing of tea. Following the privatization, these roles were taken over by the KTDA Ltd, which currently manages 66 small holder tea factories with a total of 554,715 tea ... view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the industry has borrowed Kshs1.2 billion under the asset based financing from banks and financial institutions as follows: Kshs176 million from the Barclays Bank of Kenya, Kshs722,000 from NIC Bank, Kshs115 million from Eco Bank, Kshs115 million from KCB, Kshs12 million from Stanbic as well as Kshs420,000 from Co-operative Bank and Kshs163 million from Equity Bank. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, out of the Kshs105 billion generated by the industry in 2010, the small-scale tea accounted for more than Ksh54 billion, out which Kshs40 billion was paid to the tea farmers. The total amount paid out to the tea farmers translated to more than Kshs48 for every kilogramme of green leaves delivered to the factories. The subsector has recorded a remarkable growth, with the number of tea processing factories growing from 66 to 2,010. Most of these are financed by bank loans. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the plantation subsector consists of approximately 44 estate factories, with a total of 56,893 hectares under tea, and production of over 174 million kilogrammes of tea. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the small tea growers are registered outgrowers of their respective tea factories, and the factories are owned by the growers through shareholdings. The number of shares depends on the green tea delivered by the growers by the time of share allocation. The factories normally elect six directors who make decisions on behalf of the tea growers. The directors are elected to serve a term of three years on a rotational basis. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as Government, we want to really highlight that we want the Ministry to be involved in most of the interventions in the tea production. In 2009, the Government attempted to involve KTDA in the bulk importation of fertilizer, so that the Government could subsidize it, but we ran into difficulties with the KTDA. The management of KTDA insisted that KTDA was a private company and, therefore, there was no way they could team up with the Government. So, we want to say that even as the Government, we have been getting some frustrations from the ... view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, through the hydro power generation, the Government through the Ministry of Energy, is going out of its way to ensure that most of the factories are able to have their own power generation. I would like to tell my good friend, Dr. Kones, to visit Imenti Tea Factory, where so far we are using our own hydro power generated by the factory. So, you are not the first when it comes to the power generation and the Temporary Deputy Speaker can testify on that. view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the small tea business model in Kenya is highly successful, and is among the best worldwide in terms of organization and management. Since most of these debts are privately sourced by KTDA through these factories, and most of these factories are also owned by private institutions, it is a bit difficult for the Government to really come in and write off the debts. I, therefore, on behalf of the Government – although my heart and spirit are 100 per cent for the Motion – say that the Government opposes the Motion. view