The number of registered livestock increased from one million in December 2015 to 1.2 million in August 2016, registering around 20percent increase in eight months.
The breeders' register reveal these figures. In a bid to meet domestic meat consumption, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, in collaboration with Qatar Development Bank, is providing loans to breeders to encourage animal-breeding industry.
About 50 Qatari livestock farms have benefited from this programme, the Ministry said in a statement about the Livestock Department’s achievement last year.
The Livestock Department of the Ministry is also giving a chance to livestock breeders to participate in the markets selling agricultural products and as many as 39 livestock-farms participated in the current season in Al Mazroua.
Also, veterinary clinics in Al Jumailiya and Rawdat Al Faras have been renovated in addition to allocating nine places for new clinics and specified places for establishing veterinary hospital and one hospital for camels.
The Ministry also issued and renewed licences of eight projects for livestock production and is expecting that the total poultry production will touch 21,000 tones annually.
In order to increase meat production, the authorities concerned focus more on artificial insemination, and during last year until the end of August, about 2,217 artificial insemination processes were executed.
To control the growth of abandoned animals, the authorities have made surgical sterilization for 5,000 abandoned cats. The veterinary quarantines inspected 1.4m of imported heads of birds and livestock.
