Livestock Growth in Pakistan
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2015
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Library Information Services, CUI Lahore
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The term "livestock" an umbrella raised in an agricultural environment, pets, food for their
holders, labor, clothing, or to provide fertilizer is used to determine. However, reindeer, yak,
camel semi-wild animals, including other horses, goats, cows, sheep, and poultry, are common
examples, and EMU is also well thought-out livestockFor thousands of years man and animal
husbandry and livestock keeping pet linked with the development potential is a major change in
social culture.
Livestock and agriculture sector in Pakistanis growing as well as Pakistan's total GDP and its
share in the country is growing at a faster rate. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through livestock
exports, the foreign exchange earnings is contributing food to meet the needs of a growing
population, and the shepherds, herdsmen, tenants, small farmers and rural poor, including
women, in particular by providing employment. Pakistan, on an aggregate basis after the US,
India, Russia and Germany is the fifth largest milk producing country in the world. Furthermore,
since Pakistan buffalo milk production is at No. 2 in the world after India.
In Pakistan economy, Livestock is an important part. And livestock production in terms of the
number of species to breed& capital, Pakistan is rich.For the production of Milk, Cow & Buffalo
are primarily kept,and for an important by-product of meat. Milk of goat & sheep as a by-product
of wool and meat productionhas been taken. Camel in desert and arid regions of the country is
protected for multiuse. Rising consumption of meat and dairy industry we have to run our
national demand for milk and milk supply needs assessments. Pakistan's dairy sector is mainly
subsistence slightest tendency for commercialization includes the holding. Milk and meat trend
of rapid urbanization and urban areas due to the significant increase in demand for our products,
together with an improvement in per capita income.
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Livestock Pakistan