Policies changes needed

In order to achieve the desired growth in the livestock sector, the following policies changes are essential.

• Increased investment in all-weather roads.
• Eliminate all subsidies for livestock processing and marketing in order to provide free entry for the private sectors. Thus public sector institutions would prioritize or remain as free standing units with no subsidy and raising all capital themselves.
• Remove government rules and regulations, which inhibit free markets and private activity (e.g. restriction on movement of livestock commodities across the district lines).

Considering the importance of livestock, climatic condition, topography, economic condition of farmers there are vast scope for the improvement and development of livestock production in Nepal.