The achievements of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment Livestock Department during 2016 included importing high quality livestock and encouraging farms and livestock owners to raise them by giving easy loans to buy such animals in co-operation with Qatar Development Bank.
Around 50 animal farms benefited from this programme last year. Besides, the department upgraded and equipped the veterinary clinics at Al Jamilah and Rawadat Al Faras and allocated nine new locations for new clinics in 2016. Another location was assigned for the veterinary hospital and another hospital for camels.
Last year, 39 local animal farms took part in the MME yards for local products, with around 12,000 heads of livestock sold, in addition to 25,000 domestic birds and 17,000 trays of eggs. The department granted and renewed licences for eight projects for livestock production including poultry meat, and mutton. Accordingly, meat production is expected to be 21,000 tonnes annually.
A total of 2,217 artificial insemination operations were conducted during last year until August 2016. As many as 5,000 stray cats were surgically neutered. The agriculture and animal quarantine inspected and checked around 1.4mn animals last year. The department also conducted last year a geographical survey of all the animal farms in the country to make a digital map.
There were as many as 1.2mn heads of registered livestock in the country by the end of 2016
There were as many as 1.2mn heads of registered livestock in the country by the end of 2016, compared to just 1mn during the corresponding period in 2015.
