Krishna Prasad Acharya

The author is a veterinary officer at the Department of Livestock Services, Hariharbhawan, Lalitpur, Nepal. The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent the organization he is affiliated to.
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Misleading Statistics of Livestock in Nepal

Published On: November 27, 2023 08:45 AM NPT By: Krishna Prasad Acharya

Livestock statistics influence the development of plans and policies related to the livestock sector. But, in the case of Nepal, such statistics are misleading. These misleading statistics as a result of inaccuracy in data have failed to translate plans and policies by the Department of Livestock Services (DLS) and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), thereby resulting in a lack of achieving objectives set by DLS and MoALD.