Pantnagar Journal of Research

Abstract

In agricultural economy, livestock sector plays primary and budding role to provide livelihood for the large part of poor people in the world and fairly contributes to the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country. The study examined the status of production and consumption of meat in different countries of Central Asia region from 2000 to 2017. Descriptive statistics like average, percentage, etc. were used. In all the countries, of Central Asia region meat production has increased from 15 per cent in Kyrgyzstan to 274 per cent in Tajikistan during this period on account of increase in the number of major animals and poultry birds. In Central Asian countries, except Kyrgyzstan, meat consumption increased by higher percentage than that of in the region as a whole (93.44 per cent), and in Asia (58.59 per cent) in all the countries, in the year 2017 over the year 2000. Per capita consumption of meat was highest (185.75 gram/day) in Kazakhstan while the lowest level (45.45 gram/day) was observed in Tajikistan during 2017. The highest increase of 86.88 percent was found in Tajikistan while, the lowest increase in per capita consumption was found in Kyrgyzstan is less than 1 percent.