Livestock & Dairy Development - The Policy Papers.

These Policy Papers on Livestock & Dairy Development (L&DD) regulate the planning of the Sustainable development of the Livestock & Dairy sectors which is the basic mandate of L&DD department. A holistic approach is required to encompass all facets of development. Hence, a development framework is being professed for optimal utilization of resources and enabling the stakeholders to take productive decisions in the very domains of livestock and Sustainable livestock sector development was not possible in the absence of a comprehensive policy on livestock, with expressed aims and intentions of the government to send explicitly clear signals across the markets to boost confidence of the stakeholders. Sustainable livestock sector development entails a long term commitment of the government to bring about the promised Sustainable livestock sector development to ensure food security, enhanced competitiveness, quality life of stakeholders with exportable surpluses.
The Livestock and Diary Development Department has been tasked to initiate next generation reforms that would bring the much awaited benefits of a functional democracy to the public by translating the popular will into tangible and measurable reality. The bottom line of reforms is to transform the livestock and dairy sectors into competitive and productive sectors of economy for ensuring the food security and bringing prosperity to the stakeholders while generating exportable surpluses. Promoting livelihood resilience and food and nutrition security has become central to the policy agendas of the Punjab government. Smallholder farmers need to be at the center of this priority to play a leading role in the investment efforts, needed to achieve it. Strong links to markets for poor rural producers are essential to increasing livestock production, generating economic growth in rural areas and reducing hunger and poverty. Improving these links creates a virtuous circle by boosting productivity, increasing incomes and strengthening food security (5.6).
Market led growth of the sector has been envisaged by keeping the government away from creating distortions in the marketing and value formation channels and concentrating on facilitation of the markets and stabilization of the business environment. Similar unfair practices by the private sector to distort fair market competition shall also be checked in the same spirit in the context of ensuring food security and prosperity of stakeholders, particularly small farmer.