Growth of livestock production in Pakistan

A major objective of this paper is to review the growth performance of Pakistan's livestock sub-sector. While over time the growth rate of livestock production has been good, it has exhibited considerable variation from product to product and period to period. Poultry production exhibited high growth rates until 1984-85, but turned negative during 1994-95 to 1997-98. Also, there was hardly any growth in beef production in the latter period. Improved feed can contribute significantly to dairy and poultry production, but its contribution remains limited. Progress in livestock sub-sector has been mainly the result of growing number of animals rather than rising productivity per animal. (Pak Dev Rev/DÜI)