Mian Shamim Haider, Federal Railways Minister, has announced that Pakistan Railways would facilitate the poultry feed and soybean meal importers for in time delivery from Karachi and India to solve the problems of poultry sector in the country.
Inaugurating the National Poultry Conference here on Saturday, he urged the poultry farmers, exporters and researchers to give up obsolete methods and move towards mechanisation to increase quality productivity of poultry meat and eggs.
The conference was arranged by the Pakistan Poultry Association Faisalabad with co-operation of multinational medicines companies.
The minister said: "Rapid economic development is resulting in considerable pressure on the poultry sector to increase its output, as demand for meat and eggs are increasing rapidly along with the population." Therefore, he said, "the production by the poultry sector needs to be increased substantially."
He said that the poultry production has emerged as a good substitute of beef and mutton.
"Its importance can be judged from the fact that according to farm statistics, almost every family in rural areas and every fifth family in urban areas are associated with poultry production activities in one way or the other," he said, adding, "the government is providing all possible incentives to develop it at an accelerated pace."
INCENTIVES GIVEN: For further promotion of poultry production, the government has provided the various incentives for promotion of exports of eggs and poultry meat etc in international market and to compete with China and other countries. He said that Middle East had a vast potential for Pakistan Hilal meat.
The minister said that the government was already spending huge funds on improving quality poultry production and exports through updating the poultry development and research wings at all levels.
He further underlined the imperative need of joint ventures and more investment from the private sector in research and development sector to meet the growing needs of white meat in the country.
Addressing the Association leaders Haji Altaf Haider and Dr Hussain Sarosh Akram and Raza Mehmood Khurshid said that the poultry farmers as well as breeders are facing so many problems regarding multiple local taxes. They demanded that the number of taxes should be reduced and electricity should be provided to poultry farmers according to the industrial tariff instead of expensive commercial tariff.
"Multiple local taxes and commercial tariff of electricity are yielding negative impact over the poultry production and investors are shy due to gradually increasing cost of production," they said.
After the inaugural session, the Federal Minister for Railways also inaugurated an exhibition of poultry industry and visited the various stalls.
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