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    "content": "Let me conclude by saying that when the President said that he needed a double digit growth and he talked about poverty as a core goal, I thought he was talking about Busia. In Busia, two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line. When he talked about one million acres of irrigation, given my experience around the world, irrigation is a very costly thing. There are other options along the line that can end up there. There are many areas that can contribute to that poverty reduction goal without going the high cost route. I know there are areas where irrigation might be the only way to go and I would hope that essential things that are more cost effective like improving markets channels would be considered. A lot of goods go to rot; almost as much as 30 per cent to 40 per cent goes to waste. In other terms, if you are able to save that waste, you can achieve an agricultural growth rate equivalent to what you have saved from the waste. There are more effective ways also of improving employment if you go that route."
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