Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development

Departmental bodies

• Directorate of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development
• Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department
• Department of Fisheries
• Department of Rural Development
• University of Veterinary Science, Yezin

  Objectives

• To sufficient the domestic consumption and export the extra enough.
• To control the infectious disease and zoonosis disease by co-operation with international organisation, UN agencies and concern department
• To produce the Quality and safety Livestock Products
• To achieve the average livestock improvement rate 8.43% per year
• To invite foreign investment in line with state policy
• To increase per capita consumption of fish
• To meet with ASEAN Economic Community Blue Print in fishery priority integration sector.

  Policies

• Expansion of livestock business enterprise mainly based on dairy and beef cattle
• Extension of the disease free zone for the purpose of livestock development
• Enlargement of the breeding of horse, donkey and mule for the use of transportation needed for vaccination campaigns, research projects and some remote areas where other means of transport are merely possible
• Production of internationally marketable inland and marine fish and shrimp species concordant with respective regions and climate in accordance with good breeding methods
• Increase production of value added fishery products in line with international standards
• Conservation of fisheries resources for sustainable fisheries in accordance with international guidelines
• To produce the livestock and fisheries products for food security by capture and culture system without compromising the ecosystem and to conduct the production of quality and safety livestock and fisheries products in line with international standard.
• To improve 3 times of the gross domestic product from the based year in livestock and fisheries sector.