Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 41 to 50 of 1925.

• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: The Kisumu Cotton Mill (KICOMI) industry was basically fed from the cotton yarn from the Kenyan markets. However, it collapsed because of the insufficient supply of cotton yarns. The farmers were not properly treated, organized and sorted out. The farmers, at the expense of trying to revive the industry, stopped farming cotton. I remember the late view
• 31 Mar 2022 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: President Moi appointed a special board which was chaired by no other person than the late Mzee Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. He gave him a very big car to revive the industry because of his personality that people would then listen to what he was now going to do. view
• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: The late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga did a lot in trying to resuscitate that industry. Unfortunately, when he was no longer the chairman of that board that industry collapsed with the money that the farmers had invested in this industry. The farmers lost a lot of money. Any attempt today, to try and revive the cotton industry, people remember of what happened in the past. view
• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: I hope that this Bill will be able to address those concerns of farmers, particularly the farmers who lost so heavily in this crop. They had faith in this crop and put over their resources. Whatever savings they had saved from other crops; they had put it in this this industry. When it collapsed, they became very scared. They were not ready to invest anymore. view
• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, when this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, one of the things that both the national Government and the County Government will have to do is civic education, to educate the farmers of the goodness that is contained in the various articles of this Bill. If the provisions of this Bill are properly implemented, then the farmer stands to gain. However, if they are poorly introduced to the community and to the public, am afraid it may find the same fate like the former cotton industry limited went at that time when it was being promoted by ... view
• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: Production is a very important stage. You must have certified seeds, properly sorted out and planted so that you do not have anybody planting any breed because the yield will be very low. You require high breed yielding of this cotton plant, so that the farmer is able to get additional of resources from this. view
• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: The second stage is processing. Once you get the crop and the cotton wool, how do you process it? Which means there is need for the establishment of ginneries. You cannot tell the farmer to produce then he has nowhere to send that crop. That becomes a deterrent for that farmer. view
• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the most important element is that whereas we are going to encourage farmers to grow this crop, we must at the same time, know where this crop is going to be processed. This means transportation element and the kind of societies they should develop to become cost effective so that they can get their cotton yarn from the farmers’ farm to the cotton ginnery. Therefore, the transportation element in that region, both the transport and delivery of that cotton, must be properly considered and organised. Today, where we have the tea factories, we also have ... view
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