PITB team along with representatives from Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Animal Husbandry Commissioner held a meeting with the officials from Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) in Islamabad.
Livestock & Diary Development Department (L&DD) Punjab Secretary Muhammad Masoud Anwar along with L&DD Sindh Director General Dr. Nazeer Hussain Kalhoro also participated in the meeting via Zoom.
The agenda of this meeting was to discuss the integration of PBS 7th Agricultural & Livestock Census System with Pakistan Animal Identification & Traceability System (PAITS). PITB team briefed the participants on the work methodology of PAITS emphasizing on its different components and status of on-ground operations. PBS officials lauded PITB developed PAITS and expressed their complete support regarding the integration of the PBS livestock data with PAITS.