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    "content": "(b) The Government formerly provided the AI services at a subsidized cost until the policy of free supply of the AI services was changed in the 1990s under the World Bank Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) which recommended privatization of the AI services in the country. This entailed encouraging private practitioners, dairy co- operative societies and self-help groups to establish the AI services. The Ministry, through the Veterinary Department was left with the role of advising, regulating and supervising the distribution of semen to farmers. These policy changes had an adverse effect in the livestock sector because most livestock farmers could not afford the cost of the AI. Nationally, this led to a diminished number of insemination in absolute terms from over 0.54 million in 1979 to less than 0.15 million in early 2000. This has led to deterioration of the genetic potential of the national herd as a result of poor selection and use of inferior bulls through natural mating."
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