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Dairy            Large Stock        Small Stock        Monogastric

The sub-directorate Animal production (Policies and Programmes) is made of the fields of Aquaculture, Dairy, Large Stock, Monogastric, Small Stock,  Veld, Forage and Widelife Ranching. The persons responsible for each field under the supervision of the Senior Specialist are listed in the structure.

The core functions of each of these fields are to:
• To provide information and advice on production to internal and external clients.
• To co-ordinate production data inputs for country reports to SADC and to the FAO
• To Coordinate the various fields activities such as National Working Groups
• Liaison within stakeholders such as Provincial Departments of Agriculture, producer organizations and others
• To develop technical info packs in the form of manuals, production guideline etc.
• Identify potential projects for the resource poor and new entrant farming sector
• Input on issues such as breed evaluation, integrated farmer settlement plans etc.
• Service International Joint Commissions