Milgo Alice Chepkorir

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: means that this farmer is not able to feed the cow, let alone imagining that this will be commercial business. view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as our graduates come out of the universities, we have been talking to them and telling them that they should engage in agribusiness, because it is another way of self-employment. However, looking at the misery in which farmers are being subjected to right now, no youth will take up farming. view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, recently in my county, we found that there is a lot of powdered milk coming in from across the border of a certain country into our markets. One challenging issue is that even while the milk is being sold at KShs17, the shelf price remains the same. Nobody has ever reduced that. The production costs and all other related products that go into ensuring that those dairy activities are successful are still very high. These costs include, for example, deworming and medicine to ensure the good health of the cows. They also include the high cost of ... view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: Therefore, this is a very important Statement. It should be looked into very seriously so as to unearth the actual cause of these falling prices. This means that in the future, our country will not even have any farmer actually doing farming. This is because, as you have seen, tea and sugarcane production are already affected; pyrethrum was affected a long time ago and we already have maize farmers suffering. We are now talking about cows; and soon, poultry will follow suit. Therefore, farming in this country is in jeopardy. view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries should be compelled to actually come to this House to explain whether that Ministry just exists for its own sake, yet they do not know how to go about things so as to ensure that this country becomes food secure. It is quite a shame, because our Government came on board and promised that by 2022, this county will be one of the countries in the region that shall be entirely food secure, to the extent of even having surplus to sell to the neighbouring countries. This may not be ... view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. view
• 27 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to support this Motion that has been brought to this House by my colleague, Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve. This is a very important Motion bearing in mind that we are talking about the PWDs. view
• 27 Nov 2019 in Senate: Most of the issues concerning PWDs are hardly considered particularly when it comes to sporting activities. These people have been sidelined yet we know that sporting view
• 27 Nov 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 27 Nov 2019 in Senate: activities is one way of encouraging our youth to engage in gainful activities. Sporting activities bring economic benefit to our country and are also beneficial to the health of the people concerned. view