Tag: Livestock

105 livestock extension workers trained

Punjab Livestock and Dairy Development Board (PLDDB) has completed training 105 women as livestock extension workers from the rural areas of Layyah, Rajanpur, Muzaffargarh...

Battle for Lyari claims 11 more lives

At least 11 people, including two policemen, a gangster and a woman, were killed on Saturday in the ongoing battle between law enforcement agencies...

Please wear protective gear, vets urge livestock workers

Vulnerability of poultry and cattle farm workers against different infections demands mandatory provision of protective gear for them, said a group of veterinary surgeons...

Punjab Livestock and Dairy Development Board patronising VIP culture

It seems as if the Punjab Livestock and Dairy Development Board (PLDDB) is going to inaugurate a nuclear weapon factory in Khizarabad on October...

Livestock exports hurting leather industry

At last the government imposed a ban on the export of meat and live animals, but for three months only, to control the price...

Livestock production to grow at 4 per cent

Livestock production during the current fiscal year of 2011-12 is targeted to grow by 3.98 per cent over the production of last fiscal year...

Minister directs retrieval of livestock farms

Minister for Livestock and Agriculture Malik Ahmed Ali has directed the officers of Livestock and Dairy Development to step forward for retrieval of livestock...

Livestock Department welcomes KIM delegate for study tour

The Livestock &Dairy Development Department has welcomed the delegate coming from the Kashmir Institute of Management (KIM), Muzaffarabad. An inland study tour of first...

Punjab government focusing on livestock

Punjab Livestock and Dairy Development Board (PLDDB) is considering a total overhaul of the dairy and livestock sector to turn it into a...

Livestock owners issued monsoon advisory

Livestock owners have been warned by the Sindh Animal Husbandry Director that due to expected monsoon rains in the province the immunity of animals...

Meeting reviews livestock farms project

The first meeting to analyse the progress of livestock farms was held with Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Punjab Minister for Livestock and Agriculture, in...

Veterinarians urged to help the livestock farmers

As many as 1,500 rabies exposure cases have been reported in Lahore by the Institute of Public Health (IPH). Among them 95 per cent...

Workshop on livestock

A four-day workshop on Livestock Emergency Preparedness Training was organised by the collaboration of Livestock and Dairy Development Department and Solve Agri Pak (Pvt)...

Livestock potential must be tapped: Shahbaz

LAHORE - The Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, on Friday, said that the country's livestock sector has enough potential to eliminate poverty and unemployment, in addition to earning huge foreign exchange through export of dairy products.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony of the three-day First Punjab Expo at Expo Centre here, he said that agriculture holds a key importance in the national economy and Pakistan needs to tap potential of its resources of fertile land,

Punjab govt to explore new horizons of livestock industry

FAISALABAD - Punjab government is going to set-up a milk and meat safety agency to explore new horizons of business opportunities in dairy and livestock industry. Livestock and Dairy Development Provincial Secretary Jahanzeb Khan said this while addressing the participants of the concluding session of a three-day international conference titled "Technological and scientific aspects of dairy products with special reference to French Cheeses."
He was the chief guest at the seminar

Punjab govt organises workshop on livestock

LAHORE - The Livestock and Dairy Development Department Punjab is organising a 'Consultative Workshop of Provincial Livestock Forum' on February 28 at University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore.
The main objective of the event is to present and discuss the Punjab Economic Opportunities Programme (PEOP) strategy to achieve common understanding of the stakeholders. The PEOP was actually launched by Government of Punjab and DFID jointly to increase productivity of

Livestock expo gets off to a roaring start

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah spoke at the Livestock, Fisheries, Dairy and Poultry Exhibition and Seminar at Karachi Expo Centre organised by Sindh Board of Investment.
On the occasion, he said that particularly Sindh was an agricultural oriented province and besides food items, orchards, and vegetables, it is famous for prominent breeds in cattle, dairy farming, having vast area in coastal belt with fisheries, shrimps and poultry.
He said that the best