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• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. From the outset, let me thank The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: the Senate for this opportunity, particularly Sen. (Dr.) Murango. I would like to express my response to these two questions. I would like to express the fact that I feel like I am talking from the wrong place because my seat is over there. I feel like I am talking from the wrong side of the House. It is always nice to be back. In response to the issue of tea reforms, I will first address the measures that the Government has taken to prevent the mixing of different qualities of tea before being sold at the Mombasa Auction. The ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: country; the overall objective of the tea reforms is to enhance the competitiveness of our tea industry in order to increase the returns of tea growers and other tea value chains. In this respect, we have increased monthly payments as a result of the reforms. Smallholder tea factories have increased the monthly payment of tea to tea farmers from Kshs16 to Kshs21 per kilo in the east of the rift and Kshs20 in the west of the rift. Smallholder tea farmers' earnings are gradually rising, which will reduce their overreliance on expensive loans from SACCOS and the proliferation of green ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: to the National Assembly. The Ministry has forwarded further amendments to the National Assembly for consideration in order to address the current challenges facing the industry and enhance the competitiveness of the subsector. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, export earnings from tea have increased from Kshs136.5 billion in 2021 to Kshs180.57 billion in 2023 and Kshs181.69 billion in 2024. The number of export markets have increased from 82 in 2022 to 97 in 2024. This has been attributed to the enhanced market expansion activities including trade missions and promotions undertaken in Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Hong ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: (2) It is our intention to curb tea hawking malpractices which lead to processing of low-quality tea leaves. This will be achieved by enforcing the Tea Registration and Licensing Regulations 2025. I emphasize there that our tea quality has been compromised to an extent that there are people who are hawking it. They do not have any tea of their own and essentially get it from the gates of tea factories. That is why you hear of tea theft in parts of Rift Valley. Effective this week or today, the hawking of tea across the country will be stopped so ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir--- view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Let me start with KTDA, which the hon. Senator has rightly pointed out has been facing some conflicts. As you know, the matter of the conflicts in KTDA went to the courts in this country and a court ruling was made about a couple of days ago. I think it was last week or the week before, when the court held that there is now a substantive Chairman at the KTDA. As you know, KTDA is a private outfit which corresponds with the Government very closely because of its importance to this ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: agonising issues he has to deal with, not just for himself, but also for the county he represents. What as a nation we want and the policy framework on which we are operating under is not just to value-add macadamia. It is to value-add everything that we can. The production of macadamia in this country is about 45,000 metric tonnes. The processing capacity is about 120,000 metric tonnes. What the Senator, this honourable House and I can agree on is this, that if indeed we were to go all kernel and start earning the amount of money that we can ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. On the issue raised by the Senator for Kirinyaga, yes, we had agreed. I take what he has said very seriously about visiting macadamia farmers to see and talk to them about their plight. It is our intention as a Government that, indeed, we protect the farmer and make sure that they benefit to the widest extent possible. We will do so. I will take up the issue raised by the hon. Senator. On the issue of public purpose raised by my friend, Sen. Okiya Omtatah, first and foremost, laws are made in this ... view