Volume - Indian Dairy Association

5investment community approach and developing processing facilities wouldprovide the required boost to the sector. This has been lacking so far.13. Performance of poultry sector has been more than satisfactory andthe sector has emerged from a meager backyard nature to a fullycommercialized production system, which could be attributed totechnology in the form of high producing strains, role of private sector,efficient market linkages and adequate processing facilities.14. The demand for pork and other pig products is significantly higher inNorth‐Eastern states and almost 80 per cent of the production in thecountry is consumed by people of NE region. In spite of this, developmentof piggery sector has almost been neglected in NE region; probably onaccount of lack of feed and other resources. Therefore, it calls for acomprehensive strategy for piggery development to meet the demand. Thestate governments and North Eastern Council should emphasize inpromoting this sector.15. The overall investment made in livestock and dairy sector has beenvery meager over the Plan period. The 10 th Plan outlay (2002‐2007) forDAHDF was Rs. 2500 crore which constituted 11.84 per cent of the totalbudgetary outlay of agriculture and allied sector. Out of this, the outlayallocation for DAHDF (excluding fisheries) was Rs. 1760 crores accountingfor 8.35 per cent of the total outlay for agriculture and allied sector. Interms of expenditure the performance of the department has been evenpoorer and was 8.02 per cent during the entire Plan period; varyingbetween 6.42 per cent to 10.03 per cent from year to year. On thecontrary, contribution of livestock sector has been increasing over the years(26.9 per cent in 2007‐08) as indicated in earlier paragraphs. With themeager budgetary allocation made to the sector, it would not be possibleto achieve the desired growth rate of 6 per cent targeted in the 11 th Plan.Not only the public investment has been low there has also been seriouslack of investment by the private sector in animal husbandry and that toolimited to dairying mainly in the processing sector. In the 11 th Plan, aprovision of Rs. 11000 crores was made for DAHDF. However, theexpenditure during the Plan period is likely to be no more than Rs. 6000crores. One of the reasons of poor allocation made in the Plan is attributed