Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to know from the Assistant Minister why this programme was not expanded to all arid and semi arid areas, including Keiyo because 80 percent of Keiyo is semi-arid. He said that they are relying on the Ministry of Agriculture but they ought to revisit all the areas and inform the Ministry of Agriculture to advice them further. view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: I am here! view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me start by commending Mr. Kaino for bringing this Motion before the House. Obviously, from the debate and what we know, we are united in trying to improve the lifestyles of our people. As has been always said, a hungry nation is an angry nation. view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Kenya has absolutely no business going round the world looking for food when we can produce it ourselves. view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: The policy that we want to pursue is one of self-sufficiency in food and not importation. We should seek to export food rather than import. It is amazing that Zambia is exporting food! A few years ago, I think in the 1970s, they were trying to import farmers from this country to teach them how to farm. Now we are on the other side. The United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goal No.1 is food security. As has been pointed out, in 2003, the Maputo Declaration insisted that governments have to put 10 per cent of their budget in agriculture to ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, the policy must be and should be one of food self-sufficiency. We cannot obtain it without water and irrigation. One of the Members talked about the floods and droughts. Yes, of course, we dealt with the drought and we had difficulties. Many people and lots of livestock died, because these people were not cushioned in any way. As you know, drought kills you slowly but, surely, floods kill many people very quickly, and we have to stop that. If we have dams, then we will be able to even plant trees and ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, fertilizer is very expensive. We know that countries like Bangladesh have a form of fertilizer that does not need to use as much as we are using. In fact, it does not deplete the soil. This knowledge is around, but we have not done very much, because we really slept on the job. But at the moment, with this kind of legislation coming up now – this Motion – it should be understood that we do know these things. There is a problem of financing. Regarding the issue of aflatoxin, this morning one Member suggested ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some hon. Members even this morning kept asking me: “Why do you buy this maize? Maize which is rotten should be left to view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: disappear.” There were two reasons for it, and I made that statement last Friday in Meru. One of them is that if the maize is really bad and is going to kill people, you have to mop it out and see what to do with it, so that you remove it from the food chain. When I got to the Ministry of Agriculture, I was told that there was aflatoxin. The first week there was nothing else we discussed except aflatoxin. Within a few weeks, I think on 24th May, is when scientists from five different groups said that, definitely, ... view
• 14 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. Although this Motion is very important, there is no quorum in the House. view