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    "id": 139863,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/139863/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "(a) The Government used to provide AI services at a very subsidized cost until when the policy of free supply of AI services was changed in the late 1990s. This was due to the economic hardships experienced in the 1980s and 1990s which again resulted in the implementation of the Structural Adjustment programmes (SAPs). The implementation of this programme recommended the privatization of AI services throughout the country. This entailed encouraging the private sector practitioners, the dairy co-operative societies and the self-help groups in set up AI services, and through the Ministry of Livestock, Department of Veterinary Services, to give an advisory and regulatory/supervisory and certification role. Currently, we have 750 private AI service providers throughout the country who are operating under the supervision of the local district veterinary officers. The partnership between the Government and the private sector has effectively taken root in as far as AI service provision is concerned to the livestock farmers. It has also created jobs along the production/distribution chain. My Ministry, through the Central Artificial Insemination Station based in Kabete, has continued to produce superior disease-free bull semen to farmers throughout the country."
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