Biennial Report
BIENNIAL REPORT (2013-14, 2014-15) CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Biennial report 2013-2014 & 2014-2015 Page | 1 ammu and Kashmir, the The rearing of livestock is a northern most state of India, is very critical and core activity in the bounded to the northeast by economic profile of the state. the Uygur Autonomous Region Although it is adopted as a subsidiary of Xinjiang (China), to the east by the occupation by majority of the rural Tibet Autonomous Region (China) and population, yet it constitutes a vital the Chinese-occupied portions of activity from the stand point of the Kashmir, to the south by the Indian economic welfare of the farmers. As states of Himachal Pradesh and per the population census 2011, about Punjab, to the southwest by Pakistan, 73% of the population lives in rural and to the northwest by the Pakistani areas and are associated with occupied portion of Kashmir. The vast agriculture and allied sectors including majority of the state’s territory is livestock rearing for their livelihood mountainous, and is divided into and employability. As per the Digest three zones, Kashmir Division, Jammu of Statistics 2012-13, published by Division and Ladakh Division which are Directorate of Economics and further divided into 22 Districts, 10 Statistics J&K, Livestock activity has a each in Kashmir and Jammu Divisions contribution of about 11% in the and 2 in Ladakh Division. The Gross Domestic Product of the state. Himalayas divide the Kashmir valley Contribution of animal husbandry from Ladakh while as Pir-Panjal range sector from Kashmir division to state separates it from the Jammu Division.
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