{"id":93936,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/93936/?format=json","text_counter":12,"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"},"content":" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Kenya’s livestock population is estimated at 16 million animals, comprising of indigenous, exotic and cross-breeds. The major livestock species comprising of nine million zebus cattle, three and a half million exotic and grade cattle, eight million sheep, 11 million goats, 850,000 camels, 330,000 pigs, over 29 million chicken and 470,000 rabbits. Of these, the percentage of the country’s livestock population that is reared in the ASAL regions is as follows:- All the camels, about 60 per cent of the cattle, 60 per cent of the sheep and goats and 30 per cent of indigenous poultry. I am going to lay on the Table a summary of the ASAL livestock population vis-"}