DLS.GOV.NP

Department's Strategies

A. Animal Health

• Produce vaccines within the country

• Involve private sectors in animal treatment and technical consultancy services

• Control and eradicate epidemic animal diseases

• Provide animal disease diagnostic services

• Conduct survey and surveillance of animal diseases.

• Apply quality control system in vet. medicines and vaccines

• Implement animal quarantine services effectively

• Control zoonosis diseases

• Activate Slaughterhouse and Meat Inspection Act and assist in the establishment and running of slaughterhouse by private sectors

• Control and retain quality in livestock treatment services provided by the private sectors

• Modernize the animal health services according to the standard of OIE and WTO

B. Livestock Production and Marketing:

• Establish Nucleus herd of improved animals and centre of foundation seeds of grasses in the livestock farms and distribute them to resource centres of the districts

• Manage quality control system for livestock feed and raw materials used in feed.

• Increase supply of pasture and fodder by making the community and leased forest available to the users group.

• Make use of community pasture land through users groups and increase its productivity 

• Involve private sectors in the production and marketing of quality grass seeds

• Assist to establish livestock markets in feasible places by providing necessary technical and infra-structural supports and insist private sectors to operate.

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