Dr. John Kanyuithia Mutunga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 351 to 360 of 487.

• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not object to that particular provision as long as it does not affect me because I am already on the Floor. I would like to point out a few issues that were raised on this particular report. One of them is the specific policy that is undertaken to increase or improve agricultural production, especially now that most of our agriculture is rain-fed. However, we can see some efforts in irrigation and to make it more sustainable for production in order to guarantee both food and nutritional security and also to produce raw materials for ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: If you look at the agriculture sector which is the mainstay of this economy, it is given very little money. Even the BPS this time around is proposing that we shall even give less to agriculture. Last year, agriculture was number 11 in priority of this country, where priority is looking at how much has been given to a sector. That being the case, the few proposals that look like they are reasonable in terms of what agriculture can do, is basically developing more acreage so that we can expand the national irrigation programme to increase production and productivity. There ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: If you look at the agriculture sector which is the mainstay of this economy, it is given very little money. Even the BPS this time around is proposing that we shall even give less to agriculture. Last year, agriculture was number 11 in priority of this country, where priority is looking at how much has been given to a sector. That being the case, the few proposals that look like they are reasonable in terms of what agriculture can do, is basically developing more acreage so that we can expand the national irrigation programme to increase production and productivity. There ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: like ours and has experienced all the problems that probably we have experienced. It has adopted the process of increasing their acreage through various forms of consolidation. If a BPS does not go the direction of increasing the raw materials and industries through some consolidation and taking up land that is idle, I think we are making a mistake and the Big Four Agenda may not be realised. When I look at what is happening in the proposal under the Big Four Agenda especially the proposal on the food and nutritional security, the kind of proposals that are being made ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: like ours and has experienced all the problems that probably we have experienced. It has adopted the process of increasing their acreage through various forms of consolidation. If a BPS does not go the direction of increasing the raw materials and industries through some consolidation and taking up land that is idle, I think we are making a mistake and the Big Four Agenda may not be realised. When I look at what is happening in the proposal under the Big Four Agenda especially the proposal on the food and nutritional security, the kind of proposals that are being made ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: As a country, we must be thinking very seriously about job creation. This is one country whose greater proportion of the population is of the younger age group and who are a lot more enlightened. We have transformed almost all institutions that could be into universities. We are producing a lot of university graduates and discharging them into the market without jobs. We are transforming all these young people into job seekers. They have become professional job seekers. Without looking at the relationship between the rate at which we are investing in the productive sector – so that this sector ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: As a country, we must be thinking very seriously about job creation. This is one country whose greater proportion of the population is of the younger age group and who are a lot more enlightened. We have transformed almost all institutions that could be into universities. We are producing a lot of university graduates and discharging them into the market without jobs. We are transforming all these young people into job seekers. They have become professional job seekers. Without looking at the relationship between the rate at which we are investing in the productive sector – so that this sector ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government the following Question: (a) Is the Cabinet Secretary aware that National Police Reservists – Joel Miriti and Simon Mworia from Kandebene and Mumui locations respectively were killed on 7th November 2018 and a civilian, Stephen Kailemia from Loobua location was killed on 28th November 2018, while one, Jacob Thiane from Loobua Location is nursing gunshot wounds at the Meru General Hospital, following a spate of insecurity in Tigania West Constituency? (b) Is the Cabinet Secretary further aware that National Police Reservists ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I sought an intervention when they were counter-accusing each other and I thought it would have helped because I come from an agricultural background and I would have informed the discussions. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the adoption of this Bill. We used to have strategic grain reserves in this country instead of strategic food reserves. We realised in 2015 that we needed to include other foods and not just maize, wheat and rice. So, the country changed to strategic food reserves. These days, we even keep milk and the country ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: It is a point in time when we should look at other crops. Potatoes are a very important crop in this country. It is the most consumed crop, but may not have had a lot of recognition because we do not make much noise about potatoes. The funding we are talking about today comes in to sort out some of the issues. I want to speak to the Agricultural Sector Development Program (ASDP) II. The ASDP II comes in after the ASDP I, which was basically organising agricultural extension and value chains. The ASDP II has a lot more. view