Animal Husbandry

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary is entrusted with the responsibility of all aspect of Livestock and Poultry development, like, production, processing and Marketing of livestock and poultry and their products through augmentation of production of milk, meat, eggs, and wool. Animal Health Care Service and prevention of Animal Diseases is a priority for maintenance of a healthy stock for optimum production. Creation of suitable infrastructure for breeding, feeding and management of livestock and poultry, processing of milk, meat and eggs and marketing of livestock and livestock product is also given due important. Besides, the Department is engaged in providing the required training and extension support to livestock producers so as to promote scientific rearing of livestock and Poultry amongst them with consequences generation of employment avenues in the rural Areas. To bring about Developmental Changes in Livestock and Poultry Sector, number of programmes and infrastructure Development were undertaken by the Government.