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Role and importance of agriculture in Nepalese economy
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Learn Nepalese Agriculture Development and Policy with Rahul

Livestock and livestock product

  • Acts as good substitutes / alternative to shift from agriculture to livestock for livelihood (here, agriculture in the scene of crops).
  • Contribution of livestock sector is 15% to GDP and 31% AGDP.

 

Importance

  1. Provides milk, meat, egg, wool etc
  2. General supplement income to house hold (27% house hold income)
  3. Employment generation
  4. Provides power (animal power) for cultivated and transportation
  5. 75 % of power use in agriculture is through draft animal
  6. Dung is used for composting which used to soil fertility
  7. Livestock products are importance items of trade
  8. Milk is the most important livestock product followed by meet and poultry
  9. Reduces malnutrition
  10. Current livestock growth rate is 2.9 % and APP target is to increase it up to 6.1 %
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