About Lesson
- Acts as good substitutes / alternative to shift from agriculture to livestock for livelihood (here, agriculture in the scene of crops).
- Contribution of livestock sector is 15% to GDP and 31% AGDP.
Importance
- Provides milk, meat, egg, wool etc
- General supplement income to house hold (27% house hold income)
- Employment generation
- Provides power (animal power) for cultivated and transportation
- 75 % of power use in agriculture is through draft animal
- Dung is used for composting which used to soil fertility
- Livestock products are importance items of trade
- Milk is the most important livestock product followed by meet and poultry
- Reduces malnutrition
- Current livestock growth rate is 2.9 % and APP target is to increase it up to 6.1 %