Western region legislator has been challenged to come up with regulations that will help improve sugar farming within the region, and Nyanza.
Njoro MP Joseph Kiuna says this is the only way members of parliament can help local farmers, by dealing with corrupt people and cartels that import cheap sugar from Brazil and other countries.
Kiuna said this while contributing to a motion of a bill that is being moved by Kanduyi MP Wafula Wamunyinyi at the floor of the house on Wednesday.
Kiuna said “farmers of this country has been neglected and now they are saying ‘enough is enough.’
“I normally ask myself this question, how comes, we Kenyans have very good soil where we can grow enough sugar, not for local consumption alone but also that can be exported yet you hear that Kenya’s government cannot grow enough wheat to feed its citizen. I totally disagree with that notion, because I have a feeling that we have competent farmers who can grow sugar, coffee and tea.”
The bill, value added tax (amendment) bill 2016 was read for the second time on Wednesday, and aims at amending the value added act, CAP 349 to provide for persons engage with midstream petroleum operations to register as taxable persons under the act, top include other specified agricultural processing machinery among others.