Livestock & Dairy Development Department
Livestock & Dairy Development Department (established 1973) caters to the requirements of livestock sector in the province. Livestock is increasingly becoming a very important sector of national economy, contributing even more than all the other agricultural crops combined. Livestock & Dairy Development Department strives to ensure growth and development of livestock sector in the province thus contributing to national food security, economic uplift, rural development, poverty alleviation, employment generation and foreign exchange earning. Role and objectives of the Livestock & Dairy development Department are manifest in its following mission statement.
Mission
Support livestock development in a policy environment that enables farmers to realize the dividends of livestock farming by smartly deploying public investments in core public goods & inducing private capital / initiative in the sector for poverty alleviation, food security & generation of exportable surpluses
Strategic Direction
Priority Areas for Mid Term Development Framework
Disease Surveillance
- Animal Disease surveillance, prevention & control
- Establish disease free zones
Production Enhancement
- Milk and meat production
- Support private sector in breed development
- Network extension services
Support Services
- Insemination & curative services
- Research & development
- Affordable credit & access to market
HRD
- Augmenting University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences
- Livestock technicians production programme
- Continuing education for livestock farmers & businesses
Private Sector Development
- Encourage feed & vaccine production in private sector
- Induce private initiative in government livestock farms, SPUs, feed & vaccine production
- Institute enabling regulatory regime
Product Management
- Support value addition/processing
- Standards for dairy & meat products
- Food safety & security
Punjab Share in Production
Work Done
- Cholistan Livestock Development
- Chief Minister's Package for Small Livestock Farmers
- Conservation & Propagation of Local Breeds
- Interactive with Livestock Farmers
- Services at the Farmer's Door Step
- 6th Asian Buffalo Congress
Work in progress
- Enhancing Beef Production
- Cattle Market & Exhibition Center (Pattoki)
- Legislative Review
- Milk Marketing Chain
- Business Development / Collaborations
- Human Resource Development
- Women in Livestock
- Disease Surveillance & Reporting
- Public Private Partnership in Breeding Services
- DFID Funded Programme
Website Updated on 01-09-2010
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