Enhancing Agriculture & Livestock Production Development in Andhra Pradesh, India

Veterinary and animal husbandry sector plays an important role in socio-economic development of India. It’s not only provides affordable nutritional food to the millions of people but also generates considerable employment in rural as well as urban sector. The sector also has potential for generating self employment. Apart from generating employment and income, it also provides products like egg, milk, meat, wool, bone, skin, hide, offal, manure/dung, and draught power. The development in this sector contributed to women empowerment in a big way. The demand for agricultural commodities is increasing significantly with rising population and increasing food intake of the population. There are many cooperative players who have entered into contract farming to either support in-house demand for raw material or selling to large corporate customers. The contract farming has a win-win situation for farmers as it has changed the value chain of agriculture by decreasing the dominance of intermediaries. The contract farming has paved beneficial for corporate as it has drastically decreased there procurement cost and increased the profit of the farmers in turn helping rural economy. This paper describes the economic analysis of livestock supply and demand, existing and future potential for growth, meat processing, food security aspects and different extension services. The study also researches on the sustainability of the livestock production and simultaneous livestock development through extension services.