Moses Masika Wetangula

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• 10 Nov 2020 in Senate: Kenya has been on the world map as the top tea farmer. In fact, tea from Sri Lanka cannot access any market until it is blended with tea from Kenya. That is how good our tea is. You go to Pakistan, Afghanistan and the entire Middle East, Kenyan tea is the one everybody takes. Even when one goes to UK, the famous English breakfast tea is not English but Kenyan tea. It is unfortunate that farming in this country - and a country that is agricultural - has not been given the weight it deserves by successive governments. In the ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in Senate: tea farmer has joined the line of misery that the cane farmer has been standing on. They are all living very badly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when it comes to payment, you know where I come from in Bungoma, now even a farmer who did not go to school knows something called Debit Note (DR). If you ask them how much they earned from their cane delivery, they tell you they got a DR. It means having kept cane in their farms for 30 months, they have delivered to the factory which has given them a debit note; a negative that, ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in Senate: We must bring proper legislation to fit in the component of legislative change and legislative arm of the BBI. We must bring proper policies in the policy sector, so that we make our farmers get the worth of their sweat. If you go to areas like Bungoma, and Trans Nzoia, people are trying to grow tea, but there is nowhere to deliver it because the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has been taken over by cartels. It is no longer serving farmers. We must return this crop management and the benefits out of these crops to the benefit of the ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, lastly, there is no country in the world that is properly agricultural without subsidies to farmers. If you go to USA, Europe and anywhere else, farmers take a very significant allocation of resources to feed the nation and to generate wealth. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in Senate: We have seen in this country when they give a fertilizer subsidy, it is narrowed down to maize farmers, if they get it at all. If we want to give fertilizer subsidy, we must give the tea, cane, maize, horticultural farmer and every single farmer, the subsidy to sustain them, so that they can turn the wheel of the economy. If we do not do this, then all efforts we are putting in reforming our country will come a cropper. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to see that as we focus on crop farming, we do not forget livestock farming from the northern parts of Kenya and the range lands of this country, so that every single producer in this country from agriculture, gets the worth of their products. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in Senate: I thank you. 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
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: It once was. view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to contribute to this important Statement brought by the distinguished Senator for Vihiga. If you go to Berlin, on the High Street, you will be taken to some very small building called the Congo Conference Building where in 1896 Queen Victoria and Bismarck sat down to bisect Africa as personal possessions for some of their kings like King Leopold of Belgium. That is the scramble for Africa. In Berlin, they call it the Congo Conference Building. The significance of that building is because that is where, as other countries took possessions as countries, Congo ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: However, now we are in a country where people scramble for primitive accumulation of wealth at the expense of everything. We need a very strict law to protect our heritage. If you go to Uganda, there is a Luhya community in Uganda, the Bamasaba and there is a place where Sen. (Dr.) Mbito could know, called Mumu Toto, where President Museveni goes to attend circumcision ceremonies of the Luhya people of Uganda, every August. That is their heritage. Here in Kenya, we are busy shouting obscenities at each other as we destroy our country. I want to salute the Maasai ... view