LAHORE: Punjab will export livestock and meat as the provincial government on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with seven institutions, including a Chinese company, for the purpose.

A video link meeting in this regard was presided over by Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz. Under the agreement one million livestock will be exported.

The meeting was informed that China’s Global Meat Company would install a boiler unit in collaboration with the government-owned Punjab Agriculture and Meat Company in the province.

“The boiler unit will prepare boiled meat on a large scale for export. Meat companies will import the meat of 300,000 animals ready for export. A target is set for fattening 300,000 buffaloes and cows, and 300,000 sheep and goats. Some 100,000 goats and sheep will be raised for export.”

“The state-of-the-art veterinary hospitals will be established in every tehsil of the province. Four mobile veterinary dispensaries will operate in each tehsil to provide door-to-door animal treatment.”

The CM doubled the quota of free livestock for rural women.

Mechanisation of the livestock farming sector would be introduced in Punjab for the first time.

“The government will provide up to 60pc subsidy on livestock machinery. Some 9,255 animals will be distributed to widowed and divorced women in 12 districts of south Punjab. Two million animals will be tagged to meet export targets.”

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2026