PAKISTAN’S meat industry, estimated at $115m, remains underutilised as the calves are not provided quality feed, particularly by subsistence farmers, which results in low quality production of beef. As a result, the exporters are unable to fully capitalise on the advantages of the halal meat industry due to limitations of indigenous beef breeds and lack of corporate farming. The consensus at a seminar hosted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with Punjab Halal Development Agency (PHDA) and attended by representatives of leading banks, farmers, fattening experts, senior officials and meat exporters on January 29 was that increased investment in feedlot...
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