Dr. John Kanyuithia Mutunga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Without passing this amendment, the Kshs3.73 billion will not be availed to the development of this country through the three programs that we are discussing today. Some of them are not necessarily in agriculture and I can see we are talking about agriculture a lot. view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Agriculture is majorly devolved as many of the speakers have said. That means that most of this money will be spent at the counties. The money for the ASDP will go to do specific things within the counties. It is equally divided across the counties. They have set up systems and procedures for utilisation of this money being a bilateral arrangement between the Kenyan Government and the Swedish Government. There have been intensive discussions before we came up with this program. The program is named ASDP, which comes in to implement the agricultural sector development strategy. This is the strategy ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: The National Treasury has been involved all the way in the design and the development of this program with the mother ministry. So, during the design and development, there is that serious consultation. I want to alleviate the fears of most Members who have spoken about the misappropriation of the funds. There are very few chances of misappropriating this Fund because it is very well designed and discussed in terms of putting it to specific activities in different counties. So, realising these activities and having a clear monitoring and evaluation program, to basically check what is coming out of the ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: required, will assist. So, discussions happen at the design, implementation and the audit stage and post implementation of the program. view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, most of this money is grants. Even though there is cost on the Kenyan Government, there is counterpart funding. The ASDP II money comes purely as a grant to reorganise the agricultural sector so that it can be in line with the Big Four Agenda for purposes of increasing productivity in various areas, aggregating the products and bringing transformation in manufacturing, even if it is primary transformation, which is part of the Big Four Agenda. So, it is necessary for this money to be released to the counties. Unfortunately, when passing the County Allocation Bill, the ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: May I briefly elaborate what this Fund is doing. It is basically identifying the core endemic areas in this country which are the core potential areas for various products to be produced in line with diversification because our reliance on maize is catastrophic. We cannot say that we love to eat maize in order to have food on the table. We have to look for cassava, which has been identified as a source of Vitamin B17, which is counter carcinogenic. It kills cancer cells. So, it is important for Kenyans to know that if you eat a little bit of ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: The program identifies what is supposed to be done, where and tries to interpret the value chain stages that the particular product can go through and support the interpretation of the specific stage or segment details such that if it is at the point of inputs or before production, we look at where we can get materials for planting. Are we doing some research to produce this material? If we are doing research, where shall we do it and how will it permeate across the country so that it can be utilised appropriately? view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: When it comes to production, we have to check which areas have the most potential in terms of endemism. Which areas are most suited for production of specific crops and livestock products? Aggregation has missing in this country and the only form of management of agricultural products is through the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), which was established as a green management system. We need to look at how to manage aggregation of potatoes, onions, oranges, bananas and others. view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Some parts of this country produce a lot of bananas and that is a serious food crop that we can promote for strategic food reserve. All the food that we produce can be dried and kept for many years. Even milk can be kept as powder. This program goes further to interpret how we can do processing and change the form in terms of adding value. Shall reduce the amount of water, increase grinding if it is, for example, maize flour or shall we do transformation that leads to extraction? In this case, it pre-supposes various types of industries to ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: So, the Big Four Agenda can easily fit in terms of food and nutrition security within the arrangement of this program. It can be supported in terms of transformation where we are looking at setting up various manufacturing plants which will benefit from the different products that can come as raw materials. That is one of the things that we have not done as a country. We cannot clearly and confidently declare the quantities that we produce in various areas of this country. Therefore, we cannot even promote establishments of industries in various parts of the country because we do ... view