He said that the matters of production of animals, provision of quality semen and embryo and facilities to poor and low-paid livestock farmers, building up their living standard and other related issues came under discussion, at the meeting. He said that Pakistan has a population of 200 million people but it has shortage of production of animals.
"Production of animals through poultry industry is being carried out but we have to increase production in livestock and fisheries sector from ten to twenty percent through concrete efforts," he said, emphatically. Malkani said that Sindh would work on all projects seriously so that production of animals be increased, availability of quality semen and embryo be ensured, production of milk and meat be increased, training and capacity-building of officials be utilised and enhanced.
Director Commandant Brigadier Akhter and Colonel Mehboob briefed the minister about Pak Army's livestock farms. They said they had quality animals including buffaloes, cows, bulls, etc, with better production facilities. They assured him they would work with Sindh government for provision of better semen and embryo besides training and management program for further improvements in this sector.
Earlier, they held meeting with the Secretary Livestock and Fisheries Ghulam Hussain Memon and discussed the matters of mutual interests and relating issues of livestock farmers. They exchanged information on the measures taken for the improvement and betterment of the livestock farmers. Director General Livestock Dr Akbar Soomro, Director Abdul Qadir Junejo, Jameel Shaikh and Project Director Sindh Agriculture Growth Project Dr Nazeer Kalhoro were also present.
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