National Livestock Extension Policy.

This National Livestock Extension Policy (NLEP) is a policy document governing the livestock sub-sector. The mission of NLEP is to generate, provide, disseminate demand driven, coordinated and decentralized knowledge & technology based livestock extension services for sustainably increased productivity, profit optimization and well-being of stakeholders.
The NLEP supports eliminating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. One of the major objectives of the NLEP is to contribute towards national food security through enhanced production, processing and marketing of livestock products.
The NLEP indicates the major potentials of the livestock sub-sector are: livelihood development tools for poor and pro poor, employment and income generation and poverty reduction, nutrition, food security and safety, and social safeguards, export earnings, rising demand and scope of increased productivity, renewable energy and soil health, value addition and supply chain development.
The NLEP seeks to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems. The major objectives of the NLEP are to: • fortify research-extension-farmers linkages, mobilize, build and develop farmer groups and producer organizations for better access to technologies, information and marketing channels; • promote sustainable improvements in safe milk, meat and eggs production to satisfy national demands, processing and value addition for optimal income & employment generation; • facilitate increased private sector participation and investments in livestock production, market development and export of livestock products and by products; • strengthen health services, veterinary public health, epidemiology of diseases and diagnostic facilities, diseases surveillances and reporting; • assist and motivate farmers in adopting suitable technologies through capacity building, harmonize extension services provided by public and private service providers at all levels including input suppliers, livestock commodity producers, producers organization and other agencies; • develop human resource and skill of extension service providers and farmers.