Udayapur District Exports 3,000 Metric Tons of Meat Annually

Udayapur. Three thousand metric tons of meat are exported outside the district annually. The Veterinary Hospital and Animal Services Center Udayapur has stated that out of an annual production of eight thousand metric tons of meat, three thousand 120 metric tons of meat are exported outside the district.

61 percent of the meat produced in the district is consumed in the local market, while the remaining 39 percent is sold and transported to other districts, said Shukraraj Limbu, head of the Veterinary Hospital and Animal Services Center. According to him, the highest production in the district last fiscal year was pork. In that period, two thousand 139 metric tons of pork were produced. Similarly, 1,944 metric tons of goat meat, 1,835 metric tons of chicken, and 1,758 metric tons of buffalo meat were produced. The center stated that 1.5 metric tons of sheep meat and 10 metric tons of duck meat were produced.