New Diagnostic Services Announced
PAKISTAN - The government is to spend 132 million rupees (PKR) to set up new disease diagnostic laboratories in Punjab to provide modern veterinary support services to livestock farmers.

Pakistan Milk Prices up Veal Production
PAKISTAN - Milk prices in Pakistan have begun to rapidly increase the production rate of veal.

Pakistan Government to Develop 1,000 Model Dairy Farms
PAKISTAN - Secretary Ministry of Industries, Production and Special Initiatives (MOIP&SI) Shahab Khawaja on Monday visited model dairy farms and a biogas tank in District Chakwal developed by Pakistan Dairy Development Company (PDDC).

Pakistan EPA Says Poisoned Fodder Caused Mass Death
PAKISTAN - The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has, in its preliminary investigation, confirmed that a whole farm of cows, died on November 11 because of poisoned fodder, an EPA official told Daily Times on Wednesday.

Aflatoxins Fatal for Dairy Cows
PAKISTAN - The high feed costs made dairy farmers in Pakistan use old bread in the cattle diets. However, mycotoxins in this bread have caused a catastrophe, when 493 animals died in Karachi’s Landhi Cattle Colony in November last year. More than 1,200...

Researchers Collaborate on Tick Research
PAKISTAN — Researchers from the University of Rhode Island’s Center for Vector-Borne Disease are teaming with colleagues from Pakistan to help the south Asian nation address its growing tick problem.

Use of Technology Urged in Dairy, Livestock
PAKISTAN - A Sindh born American expert on veterinary sciences, Dr Inayat Hussain, has said that the production of meat, eggs and milk in Pakistan was not keeping pace with the increase of population and stressed the need for using modern technology for...

300 Milk-Cooling Units Set Up in 500 Pakistan Villages
PAKISTAN - The Livestock and Dairy Development Board (LDDB) has established as many as 300 milk-cooling units in 500 villages of the country for small and landless farmers to increase livestock productivity and help alleviate poverty in the country. ...

Plan to Improve Milk, Meat Production
PAKISTAN - The Punjab Livestock and Dairy Development Department has drawn a plan to assist livestock farmers of Cholistan to improve milk and meat production.

Competitors Line Up For Pakistan Milk Contracts
PAKISTAN - Kiwi agricultural entrepreneurs say there is huge potential to cash in on Pakistan's large but primitive dairy industry, and are positioning themselves to reap the rewards of the south Asian nation's push to modernise the world's fourth largest...

Steps Vis-A-Vis Embryo Transfer Technology Hailed
PAKISTAN - The Dairy Farmers Association, Karachi President Haji Mohammad Akhtar in a statement said that the step taken by the Sindh government vis-‡-vis embryo transfer technology was highly appreciable and welcome.

Why Pakistani Milk Prices Have Been Fluctuating
PAKISTAN - The City District Government (CDGK) may be over-simplifying the situation when it claims that retailers are behind the current price rise in milk, The News has learnt.

Pakistan Ban On Meat Export To Stay: Minister
ISLAMABAD - Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock Sikandar Hayat Bosan has said that increased share of livestock to the agriculture GDP will not only improve the supply position in the domestic market but also help lessen dependence on import...

AJK To Raise Farmers’ Living Standards
KASHMIR - The Azad Jammu and Kashmir government has chalked out an integrated plan to raise the living standards of farmers besides opening new avenues of employment in the livestock and dairy sector, official sources said.

Govt’s Livestock Policies Yielding Positive Results
LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab, Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi has said that livestock policies of the present regime are yielding positive results, as Pakistan’s ranking in the world milk production has jumped from fifth to third slot in five years.

Nestlé milk factory can fight terrorism
PAKISTAN - Nestlé's new milk factory in Pakistan, set to be the world's largest milk collection centre, can help prevent more people from turning to Islamic extremism, the country's president has said.

Tug of war over milk price affects none but consumers
PAKISTAN - The price of milk in the metropolis seems to be doomed to no end, with its never-ending upwards trend, coupled with the government’s inability to deal with the situation.

Demand to save milch animals
PAKISTAN - President Dairy Farmers Association Karachi (DFAK) Haji Muhammad Akhtar on Wednesday urged the government to adopt a strategy to save species of high milk-yielding buffalos including Neeli, Ravi, Sahiwal, Kundi-Therparker and Red Sindhi c...

Provinces urged to issue farmer passbooks
KARACHI - Governor State Bank of Pakistan Dr Shamshad Akhtar on Tuesday urged the provincial governments to ensure speedy issuance of passbooks to the farmers in order to enable them to get bank credit.

South Africa: Food prices to rise
SOUTH AFRICA - Meat is meat but people won’t eat as their pockets begin to shrink.