Punjab government: Approves healthy livestock project
Rs30m allocated for RYK and Cholistan.
RAHIM YAR KHAN:
The Punjab government has approved funds for a Bahawalpur division project that aims to promote livestock and to control various diseases common among animals.
Of these funds Rs30 million have been allocated to Rahim Yar Khan district and Cholistan. This was stated by Rahim Yar Khan District Officer (Livestock) Syed Sibtain Bukhari on Friday.
Part of the funds, he said, will be used to provide free vaccines for diseases common among livestock – septicaemia, foot and mouth disease, arthritis and enterotoxaemia – and New Castle disease and pleuropneumonia, common in poultry.
Bukhari said that according to a government estimate there are about 1.48 million goats; 735,000 buffaloes; 827,000 cows; 233,000 sheep; and 11,700 camels in Rahim Yar Khan and Cholistan. The livelihood of about 60 per cent of the population depends on raising livestock and poultry. Each of the households has four cattle on average.
There are about 1.1 million hens of native breed and approximately 1,200 poultry farms in the area.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2012.
The Punjab government has approved funds for a Bahawalpur division project that aims to promote livestock and to control various diseases common among animals.
Of these funds Rs30 million have been allocated to Rahim Yar Khan district and Cholistan. This was stated by Rahim Yar Khan District Officer (Livestock) Syed Sibtain Bukhari on Friday.
Part of the funds, he said, will be used to provide free vaccines for diseases common among livestock – septicaemia, foot and mouth disease, arthritis and enterotoxaemia – and New Castle disease and pleuropneumonia, common in poultry.
Bukhari said that according to a government estimate there are about 1.48 million goats; 735,000 buffaloes; 827,000 cows; 233,000 sheep; and 11,700 camels in Rahim Yar Khan and Cholistan. The livelihood of about 60 per cent of the population depends on raising livestock and poultry. Each of the households has four cattle on average.
There are about 1.1 million hens of native breed and approximately 1,200 poultry farms in the area.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2012.