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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am a very proud owner of goats, and I agree with the Senator that, indeed, goats are very necessary, especially for peasant or even just above peasant farming. I would agree with that; but I am simply proposing that for our national economy – not household economy – to grow and for us to move from a third world economy to what can be considered as either a second or a first world economy, we must move beyond subsistence farming. Subsistence living does not develop nations into becoming first world nations. No nation I can think of globally has moved – and I stand to be corrected – in spite of the fact that there are very many goats in Japan, France and America. What I am proposing is that it is very important for us to maintain our goats. In fact, we should be improving. Part of the money can be given to better animal husbandry so that the goats can improve and we can get goat milk which we can then process and sell. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate What I am talking about is scaling it up. It is not possible for everybody who is borrowing money to simply buy a goat and prosper. I have experience now where everybody is doing the business of tents. All groups want to buy a tent. Now when you buy a tent, even the group you would have leased it to, has also got a tent. So, who are you going to lease that tent to if everybody has a tent? If one group had the tent and the other one had the chairs, at least, you can be trading with each other. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we are saying is that in terms of this Fund---"
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