The Way Forward:

The following measures are suggested to strengthen the meat and poultry sector for accelerated and sustainable growth:

♤ Long-term sustainable production measures have to be looked into to increase the production & quality of maize.

♤ Active surveillance, monitoring and control in case of any outbreaks in rapid manner.

♤ Network for a realistic national and global poultry database and marketing intelligence may be developed. Sufficient trained manpower should be developed in the existing institutions.

♤ With growing urbanization and increasing quality consciousness, the market for scientifically produced meat products is expected to grow rapidly. The market is growing for ready-to-eat and semi-processed meat products because of a changing socio-economic scenario and an increase in exports to neighbouring countries, especially the Middle East.

♤ The mechanized slaughter houses produce huge quantities of offal and digests from the slaughtered animals which could be profitably utilized for production of value added products, like Meat-cum-Bone Meal (MBM), Tallow, Bone Chips, Pet Foods and methane as a source of energy for value addition in most of the modern plants.

♤ There is a need to support pig rearing in order to improve sow productivity, growth rate of piglets and feed conversion efficiency.

♤ It is important to encourage proper utilization of by-products of livestock slaughter for higher income of livestock owners. The environmental pollution and spread of livestock diseases has to be prevented.