Livestock

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Livestock Dairy Development Board (LDDB) A
Profile

• Akram Khalid
• Company Secretary

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LDDB The Genesis

• Part of Livestock Development Policy presented to
  the Prime Minister (April, 2005)
• Part of Agribusiness Development and
  Diversification Project (July 2005)
• Not-for-profit company under Section 42 of
  Companies Ordinance 1984 established 27-10-2005
• Prime Minister approved summary of nominations of
  BOD (Nov 2005)
• 15 member Board of Directors-
• (8 private sector - 7 public sector)

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LDDB The Objectives

• Plan, promote, facilitate and coordinate
  accelerated development of and investment in
  livestock and dairy sectors
• Promote and facilitate marketing of livestock
  livestock products
• Encourage private sector investment in livestock
  and dairy
• Undertake capacity building of all stakeholders
• Facilitate, promote and support the development
  and dissemination of improved technologies

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LDDB Proposed Activities

• Player in implementation of livestock development
  policies (livestock development programs)
• Advise government on legal and policy framework
• International cooperation
• Identification and dissemination of new
  technologies
• Facilitate and promote livestock marketing
• Programs for producer organizations
• Stakeholders capacity building
• Livestock market information system
• Advice on re-orientation of public sector
  institutions

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LDDB Immediate Business Plan

• Making Board operational entity
• Ensuring sustained financial resource
• Supervision of livestock sector study under
  Agribusiness development and diversification
  project
• Initiation of projects
• Livestock Production and Development for Meat
  Production
• Milk Collection/Processing and Dairy Production
  and Development Program

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Supervision of livestock sector study

• Identify livestock and dairy production areas,
  determine if they show comparative advantage and
  identify the major problems and constraints in
  the specified areas
• Develop a database for different animal species
  and breeds with specific reference to production
  and processing potential
• Identify the requirements and parameters for
  restructuring and reforming post-production
  technologies and operations related to livestock
  and dairy products, including milk, mutton, beef
  and by-product business in the private sector
• Review previous work undertaken in the dairy and
  livestock sub-sectors and assess lessons learned
  and ways to benefit form such work
• Recommend measures that can address constraints
  identified regarding breeds used, marketing,
  export compliance and their harmonization with
  the relevant WTO agreements and,
• Develop proposals concerning livestock and dairy
  agribusiness components, and appropriate
  interventions for a possible follow-up project or
  second phase of the Agribusiness Development
  Project.
• Prepare a plan for the required restructuring of
  the government livestock institutions so that
  these become more responsive to the needs of the
  stakeholders.

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Livestock Production and Development for Meat
Production Project

• Executed by Livestock Dairy Development Board
• The project activities may jointly be undertaken
  with public and private sector institutions
• Facilitation and support to the farmers
• Demand driven

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Project Components

• Feedlot Fattening Farms
• Lead/Nucleus Beef Farms (150)
• Small Beef Farms (600)
• Feeder Beef Farms (300)
• Veal Production Farms (50)
• Lead Mutton Farms (250)
• Small Mutton Farms (600)
• Feeder Mutton Farms (400)
• Slaughter houses (8) and butcheries (20) in
  Private Sector
• Capacity Building of all stakeholders
• Awareness Program
• Legislation

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Project Implementation

• LDDB overall guidance, supervision and
  execution
• Consultancies for feasibilities SOPs of small
  medium and large fattening farms for beef
  mutton
• Advertisement in the newspaper
• Technical services for setting up farms
• Contract with interested farmers
• Project provides for free technical and partial
  financial assistance (max. 15 )
• Capacity building of farmers

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Project cost

• Duration 5 years (2006-11)
• Establishment cost 192.960 M
• Farmers support 1024.343 M
• Slaughter house/butcheries 61.34 M
• Training 25.84 M
• Other operational costs 216.364
• Total Cost 1520.847 M

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Milk Collection/Processing and Dairy Production
and Development Program

• Executed by Livestock Dairy Development Board
• The project activities may jointly be undertaken
  with public and private sector institutions
• Facilitation and support to the farmers
• Demand driven (cluster approach)

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Project Components

• Milk Collection and Marketing from Small and
  Landless Farmers
• Support to Market-oriented Rural Dairy Farmers
• Production of Quality Breeding Animals
• Production of Progeny-tested Bulls

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Milk Collection and Marketing

• Milk cooling units (300)
• Guaranteed purchase of milk from registered
  farmers
• Support for collection, cooling and
  transportation of milk
• Facilitate sale of milk to dairy plants and
  others
• Veterinary cover and breeding facility
• Improved animal nutrition
• Capacity building
• Farmers organization

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Market-oriented Rural Farmers

• Support rearing of quality heifers and bull
  calves
• Veterinary and breeding services
• Training in various aspects of dairy farming
• Support for silage/hay making and fodder
  production
• Technology support

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Production of quality breeding animals

• Support for rearing of heifers by small and
  market oriented dairy farmers
• Support for rearing of bull calves
• Support for silage/hay making and fodder
  production
• Facilitate sale of quality heifers and future
  breeding bulls
• Training in various aspects of heifer and bull
  calf management

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Production of Progeny Tested Bulls

• Technical and financial support for expansion of
  progeny testing program for Nili-Ravi buffalo and
  Sahiwal cattle
• Initiation of progeny testing program for Kundi
  buffalo and Red Sindhi cattle
• Public-private partnership in progeny testing
  program
• Link production of progeny tested bulls to the
  breeding program with farmers
• Support to semen production centres
• Strengthening of selected AI centres

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Project Implementation

• LDDB overall guidance, supervision and
  execution
• Component I
• 500 villages (identification in collaboration
  with PMSIL, PDDC, provinces)
• 300 milk cooling units farmers organization
• Milk collection centre to act as focus for
  veterinary cover, breeding (AI) and feed/fodder
  seed availability
• VLW and farmers training
• Component II III
• Newspaper advertisement for farmers selection
• Cluster approach
• Technology support capacity building
• Facilitation of sale of heifers bull calves
• Component IV
• Strengthening of on going activity in Punjab
• Initiate progeny testing program

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Project cost

• Duration 5 years (2006-2011)
• Establishment cost 244.560 M
• Equipment cost 260.100 M
• Field activities 855.600 M
• Other operational cost 228.090 M
• Total Cost 1588.350 M

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• Thank You

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Livestock Development Policy

• Vision
• Promoting livestock to provide safe and quality
  products at competitive prices, covering entire
  value chain with focus on market and poverty
  reduction
• Policy
• Private sector led development with public
  sector providing enabling environment

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Strategy for development

• Private sector led
• Increase in productivity
• Moving from subsistence farming to
  market-oriented and commercial farming
• Covering entire value chain

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Features of Livestock Policy 1

• Legal Framework
• De-regulation of milk and meat prices
• Rationalization of taxes at local govt level
• Sale of meat animals on live weight basis
• Quality control of livestock products
• Regulation of urban gawala colonies
• Level playing field for local dairy industry

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Features of Livestock Policy 2

• Livestock and Dairy Development Board
• Professionally run corporate body (free from
  unnecessary controls), will also act as holding
  company
• Facilitate and promote production, processing and
  marketing of milk and meat covering entire value
  chain
• Capacity building of the stakeholders
• Provision of technical and managerial services
• Sustained financial base

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Features of Livestock Policy 3

• Credit availability - Collateral issue
• Strengthening of policy and regulatory capacity
  at MINFAL headed by Animal Resource Development
  Commissioner
• Capacity Building for all stakeholders (LDDB, Jan
  2006)

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Features of Livestock Policy 4

• Re-orienting Public Sector Institutions
• Government farms superior male production
• Phased privatization of slaughter houses
• Self-sustaining/private-public partnership for
  vaccine production centres
• Improvement in research development
  infrastructure as well as funding levels (Estab
  50 Operational 50)

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Public Sector Programs 1

• Vaccine production facility and epidemiology of
  Foot and Mouth disease
• Improvement in quality of veterinary vaccines
• Market information system for livestock
• Infrastructure improvement in livestock markets
• Genetic potential of cattle and buffalo breeds
  for beef and sheep and goat breeds for mutton
  production
• Range and forage improvement programs

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Public Sector Programs 2

• Surveillance and monitoring system for animal
  diseases
• Expansion and modernization of diagnostic
  laboratories with quality control of milk
  facilities
• Fodder research and development programs in
  livestock production institutions
• Biotechnological interventions Embryo transfer
• Drought mitigation strategies

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Promoting Livestock as a Source of Supplementary
Income 1

• Support for
• Establishment of a network of milk collection and
  chilling centres and refrigerated transport
• Cooperatives for meat animals marketing
• Seed availability of high yielding multi-cut
  fodder varieties
• Popularization of balanced feed and
  multi-nutrient molasses blocks for animals
• Farmers training particularly women in improved
  animal management
• Livestock help-line

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Promoting Livestock as a Source of Supplementary
Income 2

• Expanding the progeny testing program for
  Nili-Ravi buffalo and Sahiwal cattle and
  initiation of genetic improvement of Kundi
  buffaloes and Red Sindhi cattle
• Expansion of genetic up-gradation of non-descript
  cattle through crossbreeding
• Expansion of artificial insemination network
• Bull calf raising centres and bulls for natural
  breeding
• Production of quality rams/bucks of indigenous
  sheep and goat breeds

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SME in Livestock 1

• Support for
• Model dairy farms at district level
• Livestock business advisory service
• Salvage farming for dry animals of dairy colonies
• Support for private sector semen production units
• Wool production and processing
• Improved skins/hides processing

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SME in Livestock 2

• Support for
• Feed-lot fattening for beef and mutton production
• Establishment of model butcheries in each city
  (grading system and commercial cuts)
• Encouraging building of slaughter houses in
  private sector
• Establishment of disease-free herds
• Establishment of slaughter house by-products
  plants

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Livestock Business Promotion

• Incentives for
• Setting up large scale breeding farms
• Integrated meat production and processing
• Dairy zones in each districts (300 acres each)
• Meat export processing zones

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Programs for absolute poor

• Passing-on the gift program for absolute poor
• Distribution of livestock to destitute from Zakat
  and Bait-ul-Mal
• Restocking of sheep and goat herds lost during
  drought in Baluchistan
• Restocking of animals in quake-hit areas

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LDDB Provisions in Agri-business Project

• Staff
• Livestock Dairy Development Advisor (1)
• Administrative Support No. Rum/mo
• Personal Assistant (2) 10,000
• Accounts/Admin Assistant (1) 10,000
• Computer operators (3) 15,000
• Receptionist (1) 10,000
• Driver (1) 7,000
• Messengers (2) 7,000
• Security Guards (2) 5,000
• Janitor (1) 3,000

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LDDB Provisions in Agri-business Project

• Office
• Rental Rs. 1.000 million/year
• Refurbishment Rs. 2.000 million
• Furniture Fixture Rs. 0.190 million
• Equipment
• Computers (2 No)
• Multimedia Projector (1 No)
• Photocopier (1 No)
• Fax (1 No)
• Vehicles
• Saloon Car Rs. 1.200 million
• Motor cycle Rs. 80,000

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LDDB Provisions in Agri-business Project

• Operational Expenditure (Million Rs for 5 years)
• Travel 3.450
• Office supplies 0.900
• Communications 1.200
• Utilities 1.080
• Vehicle operating cost 0.925
• Repairs maintenance 0.050
• Contingency 10.245

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Livestock Business Development Support under
Agribusiness Development Project

• Agriculture Support Services Provision Through
  ASF
• Business Development Services
• Matching funds for enterprises, farmers, research
  extension service providers (5050)
• Grant to farmers organizations for agribusiness
  or marketing enterprises (100)
• Private sector information service
• Agribusiness Finance Development
• Agribusiness capacity building
• Dairy livestock sector particularly higher
  level knowledge skill development
• Capacity building including farmers field schools
• Livestock agribusiness study

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INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN LIVESTOCK
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LIVESTOCK IN NATIONAL ECONOMY

• Agriculture in Pak GDP 23.1
• Livestock in Pak GDP 10.8
• Share in agri GDP 46.8
• Livestock in export 8.5
• Provides raw material for industry
• Creates market and capital
• Social security for rural poor
• Security against crop failure in barani areas
• Dependent population gt 6.5 m families
• Economic Survey (2004-05)

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LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION

• Milk 29.472 M ton
• Beef 1.115 M ton
• Mutton 0.740 M ton
• Poultry meat 0.416 M ton
• Eggs 8.529 billion
• Wool 40.2 T ton
• Hair 21.5 T ton
• Skins and hides 51.2 millions
• Economic Survey (2004-05)

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LIVESTOCK POPULATION (2004-05)

• (Million Heads)
• PROVINCE CATTLE BUFFALO SHEEP GOAT CAMEL
• PAKISTAN 24.2 26.3 24.9 56.7
  0.8
• Per cent distribution
• NWFP 21.5 6.3 13.3 17.5 8.3
• PUNJAB 43.2 60.8 24.3 37.1 18.6
• SINDH 28.9 31.8 18.2 23.8 29.7
• BALOCH- 6.4 1.1 44.2 21.6
  43.4
• ISTAN
• Economic Survey (2004-05)

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Livestock population trends
2004 data is estimated
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Livestock by Herd Size in Pakistan (Census 1996)
)  
  Values in parentheses indicate cumulative value
indicating age of total animals up to that herd
size.    
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Why investing in livestock sector ?

• Demand for livestock products is increasing
• Technologies for increasing production and
  processing are available
• Processed food is in demand
• Cost of production and profitability issue
• Export market in Gulf and South-East Asia
• International subsidies are lowering
• Niche markets

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Supply and Demand
Supply and Demand
Parameter Current (2004-5) Supply (2010) Demand (2010)
Growth rate () 2.9 (milk) 3.2 (meat) 3.2 (milk) 4.3 (meat) 5.0 (milk) 6.5 (meat)
Milk (million tons) 29.472 35.86 38.30
Meat (thousand tons) 2278 2806 3228
Projected
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Government Initiatives

• Improving legal framework
• Access to bank credit
• Govt guaranteed private sector-led two companies
  for promotion and facilitation
• Re-orienting public sector institutions
• Livestock development policy
• Increasing public-sector investment to facilitate
  and promote the sector development

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Investment opportunities 1

• Setting up large scale breeding farms
• Farms for crossbred cattle
• Salvage farming for dry animals of dairy colonies
• Semen production units
• Artificial insemination service
• Establishment of milk collection and chilling
  centres and refrigerated transport
• Specialized dairy farms
• Vaccine production units especially for Foot and
  Mouth disease
• Seed production and sale of high yielding
  multi-cut fodder varieties
• Cattle feed mills
• Diversification of dairy products

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Investment opportunities 2

• Feed-lot fattening for beef and mutton production
• Establishment of model butcheries in each city
  (grading system and commercial cuts)
• Breeding rams/bucks production farms
• Slaughter houses in private sector
• Establishment of slaughter house by-products
  plants
• Integrated poultry production units
• High tech broiler and layer production
• Poultry processing (chilled and frozen, cuts)
• Value added units (processed products)
• Veterinary pharmaceuticals

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• Thank You

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Livestock Production Constraints

• Unavailability of superior germplasm
• Inadequate feed resources (short by 30)
• Epidemics of infectious diseases
• Livestock herd structure
• Un-organized farmers and lack of lobbying
• Poor marketing infrastructure
• Low investment by government (lt1 of PSDP)
• Poor institutional infrastructure
• Inadequate regulatory framework
• Unavailability of credit to the livestock farmers
  (11 of agricultural credit)

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Livestock production systems

• Buffaloes and Cattle
• - Rural subsistence small holdings
• - Rural market oriented small holdings
• - Rural commercial farming
• - Peri-urban commercial dairying
• Sheep and Goats
• - Nomadic
• - Transhumant
• - Sedentary / household
• Poultry
• - Traditional rural poultry
• - Industrial poultry Production

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Supply and Demand Issue

• Demand for livestock products is increasing
• Population growth rate and increased income are
  the real reasons
• Increase in red meat prices clearly indicate
  supply gap
• Tremendous scope of export (rising trend each
  year)
• Technology gap shows scope for increased
  production

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Supply and Demand
Parameter Current (2003-2004) 2010 (MTDF) 2010 (High Road)
Growth rate () 2.5 (milk) 3.1 (meat) 3.2 (milk) 4.3 (meat) 5.0 (milk) 6.5 (meat)
Milk (million tons) 28.62 35.86 38.30
Meat (thousand tons) 2212 2806 3228
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Prospects and Potentials

• Rangelands 23.5 m Ha
• Current fallow 6.53 m Ha

Farmers Milk Yield (kg/305 days) Meat Yield (kg/carcass)
Average 1800 191
Elite animals 3500 250
Developed countries 6500 293
FAO Yearbook 2002
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Government Initiatives

• Livestock Development Policy (Private sector led
  development with public sector providing enabling
  environment)
• Legal Framework
• Livestock and Dairy Development Board
• Capacity Building
• Credit availability
• Re-orienting public sector Institutions
• Incentives for enterprisers
• Poultry Development Policy
• Development Projects
• Strengthening of Livestock Services
• Agribusiness Development
• Improvement in Meat Production processing
• Improvement in Milk Production, collection and
  Processing
• FAO TCP projects
• Provincial Government Initiatives

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Livestock and Dairy Development Board

• Professionally run corporate body (free from
  unnecessary controls) registered under Companies
  Act
• Facilitate and promote production, processing and
  marketing of milk, meat and poultry covering
  entire value chain
• Facilities and promote producers controlled
  organization
• Capacity building of the stakeholders
• Provision of technical and managerial services
• Sustained financial base

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Summary

• Livestock has great potential for economic
  growth, export and poverty alleviation
• Main features of proposed Livestock Development
  Policy are
• Enactment of enabling legal framework
• Establishment of Livestock and Dairy Development
  Board
• Ensuring credit availability to livestock farmers
• Thrust on capacity building of all stakeholders
• Improving technical back-stopping at MINFAL
• Restructuring livestock related public sector
  institutions
• Promoting commercial livestock farming
• Action Plan for increase in Milk and Meat
  production with combined efforts of Private
  Sector, Federal Government, Provincial
  Governments and Livestock Dairy Development
  Board

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Features of Livestock Policy 1

• Legal Framework
• Review update existing laws Federal laws (FG,
  July 2005)
• Review update existing laws Provincial laws
  (PG, July 2005)
• De-regulation of milk and meat prices (PG, Jan
  2006)
• Rationalization of taxes at local govt level (PG,
  Jul 2006)
• Sale of meat animals on live weight basis (PG,
  Jan 2006)
• Quality control of livestock products (PG, Jan
  2006)
• Regulation of urban gawala colonies (PG, Jan
  2006)

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• for
• Equitable Rural Development
• Healthy Nation and
• Poverty Alleviation
• Invest in Livestock Development

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Livestock Development Policy

• Vision
• Promoting livestock to provide safe and quality
  products at competitive prices, covering entire
  value chain with focus on market and poverty
  reduction
• Policy
• Private sector led development with public
  sector providing enabling environment

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Strategy for development

• Private sector led
• Increase in productivity
• Moving from subsistence farming to
  market-oriented and commercial farming
• Covering entire value chain

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Progress in hand

• Strengthening of livestock services project
  (EU-GOP funding)
• Agribusiness development project
• Up-scaling of Hala from 500 to 1200 villages
• Milk collection and marketing initiative of LEADS
  at Thatta (FAO-IFAD funding)
• PSDP (2004-05) 5 new projects

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Hala Model by Idara Kissan
Milk Collection Centre
Producer/Member
Milk Plants
Services (subsidized) 1. Vaccination
Health cover 2. Breed Improvement - AI 3.
Feed fodder seed 4. Training 5. Mother
child Program Fixed price and assured
purchase

• Processing
• Marketing
• Pasteurized
• Milk
• UHT milk
• Dairy products

Retailer
Consumer
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POLICY VISION

• Provide the people of Pakistan wholesome
  livestock products at competitive prices along
  with exploring export markets in Gulf and South
  East Asian countries and use livestock as a tool
  for poverty reduction in the country

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PROPOSED POLICY

• Livestock development in Pakistan will be led
  by private sector with public sector providing
  enabling environment and capacity building role

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STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT

• Increase in per unit animal productivity
• Moving from subsistence farming to
  market-oriented farming and finally commercial
  farming

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Improvingper unit animal productivity

• Balanced Feed
• Health Management
• Improvement in Genetic Potential
• Fair Marketing

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Government Initiatives

• Legal Framework
• De-regulation of milk and meat prices
• Sale of meat animals on live weight basis
• Level playing field for local dairy industry
• Electricity and other tariffs/local taxes
• Quality control of livestock products
• National standards for livestock and livestock
  products

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Features of Livestock Policy 2

• Livestock and Dairy Board
• Professionally run corporate body (free from
  unnecessary controls)
• Facilitate and promote producers owned and
  controlled organizations for milk and meat
  production
• Capacity building of the stakeholders
• Provision of technical and managerial services
• Rs. 5 billion endowment fund

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Features of Livestock Policy 3

• Credit availability
• Separate credit line
• Collateral issue
• Capacity Building
• Very important
• All stakeholders

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Features of Livestock Policy 4

• Technical back-stopping at MINFAL
• Animal Resource Development Commissioner similar
  to ADC
• Separate commissioners for
• Milk
• Meat
• Poultry
• Diseases
• Inland fisheries
• Marine Fisheries

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Features of Livestock Policy 5

• Restructuring Institutions
• Private-public partnership for slaughter houses
• Self-sustaining/private-public partnership for
  vaccine production centres
• Government farms superior male production
• Improvement in research development
  infrastructure as well as funding levels (Estab
  50 Operational 50)
• Incentives for Commercial Farming
• Allocation of marginal state land
• Rationalization of Taxes
• Regulation of Functioning of Dairy Colonies

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Action Plan For Milk IncreaseImmediate (Ist
Year)

• Establishment of a network of milk collection and
  chilling centres and refrigerated transport
  (LB,PS)
• Model dairy farms at district level (LB,PS)
• Vaccine production facility and epidemiology of
  Foot and Mouth disease (FG)
• Quality control of veterinary vaccines (FG)
• Seed availability of high yielding multi-cut
  fodder varieties (PS,PG)
• Popularization of balanced feed for animals
  (LB,PG)
• Farmers training particularly women in improved
  animal management (LB,PG)
• Use of media (print and electronic) in livestock
  extension activities (LB,PG)
• Livestock help-line (LB,PG)
• Feed advisory service (LB,PG)

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Action Plan For Milk IncreaseShort-term (2-3
Years)

• Re-organizing dairy cattle colonies particularly
  at Karachi (PG,LB)
• Expanding the progeny testing programme for
  Nili-Ravi buffalo and Sahiwal cattle and
  initiation of genetic improvement of Kundi
  buffaloes and Red Sindhi cattle (PG,LB,PS)
• New summer fodder varieties for animals (PG,PS)
• Popularization of legume fodders and
  legume-cereal mixed fodder cropping system
  (PG,LB,PS)
• Modernization of vaccine production facilities
  (PG,FG,PS)
• Expansion of artificial insemination network
  (PG,PS)
• Bull calf raising centres (PG,PS)
• Salvage farming for dry animals of dairy colonies
  (PS,LB,PG)
• Distribution of livestock to destitutes from
  Zakat and Bait-ul-Mal (FG,PG)
• Surveillance and monitoring system for animal
  diseases (FG,PG)

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Action Plan For Milk IncreaseMedium-term (3 to 5
Years)

• Genetic up-gradation of non-descript cattle
  through crossbreeding (PS,PG)
• Setting up large scale breeding farms (PS,LB)
• Dairy zones in each districts (300 acres each)
  (PG)
• Sexual health control programme (PG,LB)
• Fodder research and development programmes in
  livestock production institutions (PG)
• Support for private sector semen production units
  (LB)
• Genetic characterization and sustainable use of
  indigenous livestock genetic resources (FG,PG)
• Expansion and modernization of diagnostic
  laboratories with quality control of milk
  facilities (FG,PG)
• Market information system for livestock (LB,PG)

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Action Plan For Meat IncreaseImmediate (Ist Year)

• Feed-lot fattening for beef and mutton production
  (PS,LB)
• Establishment of model butcheries in each city
  (grading system and commercial cuts) (PS,LB)
• Farmers training in commercial meat production
  (PG,LB)
• Butchers training in improved flaying techniques
  (PG,LB)
• Infrastructure improvement in livestock markets
  (DG,PG)
• Meat production service centres (PG,LB)

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Action Plan For Meat IncreaseShort-term (2-3
Years)

• Production of quality rams/bucks of indigenous
  sheep and goat breeds (PS,PG,LB)
• Nuclear and multiplier flocks for sheep/goat male
  production (PS,LB)
• Meat export processing zones (PG,FG)
• Cooperatives for meat animals marketing (PS,LB)
• Evaluation of Narimaster in the field (PG)
• Popularization of multi-nutrient molasses blocks
  (PS,LB,PG)
• Drought mitigation strategies (FG,PG)

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Action Plan For Meat IncreaseMedium-term (3 to 5
Years)

• Genetic potential of cattle and buffalo breeds
  for beef production (PG,FG)
• Genetic potential of sheep and goat breeds for
  mutton production (PG,FG)
• Modernization of slaughter houses (PS,DG)
• Encouraging building of slaughter houses in
  private sector (PS,FG)
• Establishment of slaughter house by-products
  plants (PS,PG,FG)
• Establishment of disease-free herds (PS,PG,FG)
• Range and forage improvement programmes (PG,FG)
• Restocking of sheep and goats herds lost during
  drought in Baluchistan (PG,FG)
• In-service training for professional and
  para-professional staff (PG,FG)
• Transport for live animals and carcasses (PS,PG)

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Summary

• Livestock has great potential for economic
  growth, export and poverty alleviation
• Main features of proposed Livestock Development
  Policy are
• Enactment of enabling legal framework
• Establishment of Livestock and Dairy Development
  Board
• Ensuring credit availability to livestock farmers
• Thrust on capacity building of all stakeholders
• Improving technical back-stopping at MINFAL
• Restructuring livestock related public sector
  institutions
• Promoting commercial livestock farming
• Action Plan for increase in Milk and Meat
  production with combined efforts of Private
  Sector, Federal Government, Provincial
  Governments and Livestock Dairy Development
  Board

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• for
• Equitable Rural Development
• Healthy Nation and
• Poverty Alleviation
• Invest in Livestock Development