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"speaker_name": "Dr. Kuti",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Livestock",
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the livestock sector contributes greatly to the economy of this country. Barely, no household is without one form or another of livestock, be it chicken, cows, goats or camels. This subsector contributes about 12 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It is about 50 per cent of the contribution of the agricultural GDP. In the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) population, over 90 per cent of the people are employed in this subsector. Therefore, it creates very high employment especially in ASALs and other nomadic communities. The potential also for this sector is so great that if fully utilized, it can turn around the economy of this country greatly. But something happened in the 1980s in the form of a Government policy as a result of maybe hard economic times. The Government adopted what is called the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), where very important roles and subsidies that were provided to the farmers were all turned back. Also, recruitment, surveillance of disease, dipping and regular vaccination were halted. This made us lose so much and the consequences were so bad that the country was stamped as âdiseasedâ in terms of livestock diseases and we could not access international markets."
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