Our Correspondent
Kohima | April 14
Nagaland produces 66.68 percent of the total requirement of livestock which is worth Rs 1673.35 crore and leaves behind a shortfall of 33.32 percent, according to the Sample Survey Report of 2014-15 published in the Nagaland Economic Survey 2015-16.
On the shortfall, Nagaland state imported animal husbandary products worth Rs 214.74 crore in monetary terms, the Survey which was published by the Economics & Statistics Department stated.
The value of import of meat, eggs and dairy products which stood at Rs 215.46 crore in 2013-14 registered a fall of Rs 0.72 crore in 2014-15. Production of milk, meat and egg in the state during 2014-15 was 75.92 thousand tonnes, 39.27 thousand tonnes and 706 lakh numbers respectively.
The report stated that there has been a decline in imports of animal husbandary products which has been made possible due to implementation of various livestock and poultry programmes through the Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry, Nagaland.
The report maintained that livestock development in the state improved through adaption of various strategies.
Charting out of road map, Vision 2020, revival and improvement of the traditional backyard livestock and poultry farming, conversion of demonstration farms into breeding and production units, setting up of private commercial and rural breeding farms on Private Public Partnership mode are some initiatives which have scaled up production in this sector, the report claimed.
It also maintained that increase in the level of production of animal husbandry products has positive impact on the availability and per capita consumption rate in Nagaland state.
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