Pakistan may increase milk, meat production upto 50pc

LAHORE: Vice Chancellor of University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Prof Dr Muhammad Nawaz has said one third of fodder and water are being wasted due to low potential animals which should be replaced with best genetic ones.

Talking to APP here on Sunday, he elaborated "the country lags behind in milk production due to low potential animals which give only three to five litre per animal in a day while they should meet the target of 20 to 25 litre per animal being a good milk producing country.

However, despite these shortcomings, Pakistan is the third largest milk producing country in the world".

By adopting good management practices, he added small farmer could increase 25 to 50 percent of milk and meat production.

Dr Nawaz mentioned that UVAS was a national university and making efforts for the development of livestock and producing professional manpower to benefit the national exchequer.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011