LAHORE – The Pakistan Economic Survey 2017-18, released on Thursday, noted that the number of donkeys in the country has increased by 100,000 (0.1 million) to 5.3 million.
An overall increase has been seen in the number of livestock in the country.
Nearly eight million families in the country are involved in livestock raising and deriving more than 35 percent income from livestock production activities.
It is a source of cash income, providing a vital and often the only source of income for the rural and playing an important role in poverty alleviation and foreign exchange earnings, the survey said.
This can be seen with the increase in the number of livestock in the country with the number of donkeys increasing by nearly a million in the country.
Horses, on the other hand, have remained at a steady 0.4 million throughout the last three years with 1.1 million camels in the country.
The number of goats in the country also saw an increase from last year with 74.1 million goats in the country as per the 2017-2018 economic survey.
