Punjab Agriculture & Meat Company (PAMCO)

“Punjab Agriculture & Meat Company is a Government of the Punjab owned, non-profit R&D organization, duly incorporated and registered under section 42 of Companies Ordinance, 1984. The company has been aimed at formalizing horticulture and meat sec een aimed at formalizing horticulture and meat sector through interventions at each tier of value chain i.e. production, processing and marketing (inland & export) under compliance of international quality standards through public / private channels. PAMCO is running following projects: There is a growing demand of Halal meat and its products at global markets. It is important to abridge the demand and supply gap through R&D initiatives for Halal meat supply system. Currently about 600 billion dollars Global Halal market is facing supply gap due to constraints in terms of quality animals and processing under the compliance regime of international quality standers Mechanical slaughtering lines for beef & mutton, Meat processing Facilities, Value addition through allied products, Supply to Global Halal market, Meat technology institute in collaboration with UVAS, Blood Rendering Plant, Compost Plant, Waste Water Treatment Plant, Cooling system (Chilling & Blast Freezing), Compliance of standards at all tiers of value chain. Its Capacity is 500 beef & 6,000 mutton animals / 8hrs shift and one dedicated municipal shift. The calves are reared on whole milk feeding through mother sucking. Therefore, most of the farmers from commercial dairy production system sell calves within 2-3 days of birth which died causing early slaughtering of these calves. It is estimated that 5-6 million male calves are slaughtered before attaining the age of one month; PAMCO took initiative to save these calves providing incentive of Rs.3,200/- against each saved calf to the farmers. This project is successfully progressing to achieve the objective “Save the Calf”, now farmers deliberate calves more valuable than milk. “Punjab Agriculture & Meat Company is a Government of the Punjab owned, non-profit R&D organization, duly incorporated and registered under section 42 of Companies Ordinance, 1984. The company has been aimed at formalizing horticulture and meat sector through interventions at each tier of value chain i.e. production, processing and marketing (inland & export) under compliance of international quality & food safety standards.”