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    "content": "There are countries which produce livestock, for example, goats and sheep for meat. About two years ago, I was with two gentlemen from France. They were from Botswana. They gave us a story about their business in leather. According to them, if you rear your goats and you produce leather the way it should be, the value of that leather is five times more than the value of the meat from the same goat. When we are talking about value-addition here we are talking about the meat. To those two gentlemen from France, the meat was actually a by-product. They were after only the skin. It goes a long way to show that unless we industrialize we will not go anywhere. The moment you start value adding, commonly known as manufacturing, you will also attract all manner of other services. For example, you will have people for transport, people to do packaging, technicians to work in the factories, accountants, ICT officers, those who do sales and promotion, those who do advertisement and so on. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the multiple effect of an attempt to manufacture goods is endless. Most importantly, following what the bill proposes, we shall industrialize our agricultural products and in the process, convert our subsistence agriculture into a business. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at the moment, farmers in this country constitute a majority because they contribute over 70 percent of income for our population, although farming itself is subsistence. If you go to the rural areas or most of the counties, you will see a farmer who you think is doing very well because he has a child who has attained Form Four education. However, he will tell you in Kiswahili language mtoto hajapata kazi . He has a big chunk of land or"
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