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    "content": "them sometimes to reduce the number of animals they keep which could be due to cultural reasons. The one who has more cattle is considered to be well to do. They should reduce this to sizeable and manageable heads. This can only happen if they will get returns from it. They need to be trained on that. The national government cannot run away from developing disease free zones, developing infrastructure in terms of proper roads, airports and marketing. I am sure that in other products, it is not local farmers who go about looking for markets for their crops. This is done by the Government. In this case, the national Government will not run away from it. It has to provide the infrastructure and set up the necessary facilities like disease- free zones. County governments have to invest on the particular item of this Motion; the abattoirs, with what they can afford considering the little money they are getting. However, they should do it in a way that they complement each other. You cannot have big airports everywhere. Right now, there is an airport coming up in Isiolo. Counties around that area can use that airport if a market is provided to sell their meat products. There are other products like the skins and hides and livestock farmers should have a proper way of making use of them. We have cattle, sheep and goats and their products can be used in different ways. We also need to conduct research on what can come out of these products so that we make informed decisions. We should know that animal products are important in which way. That can be done if we invest in the relevant courses. It was said by Sen. Khalwale that the human resource in those areas needs to be developed. That is a problem that was created by the Government because 100 years ago, there were no schools in western or northern Kenya. This has been a problem of our Government. They thought that since the area had no potential, probably, the people also had no potential. They should have set up proper educational facilities there and we would have a human resource capital which would have found a need to conduct research on the livelihoods of the people. That is why there is no development in that sector because, unfortunately, the people from that area did not have that initial start off that others had. If the kind of Motion we have here is supported, we will move on. I beg to support."
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