Structural, Functional and Situational Factors Influencing the Privatisation of Veterinary Services in Andhra Pradesh

The veterinary services are not reaching the needy farmers at the right time in right form in the traditional extension system due to various reasons/drawbacks such as lack of funds, high cost, dissatisfaction of the veterinarians over the administrative and para staff, incentives, lack of software and hardware support etc. Privatisation of veterinary services is one of the frontier areas, whose potential is unlimited in the Animal Husbandry sector. An ex-post facto research design was used to analyse and compare the structural and functional aspects of the operating agencies/ organisations like state department of Animal Husbandry, private and semigovernment organisations and consultants involved in livestock development with reference to the identified services which influence the privatisation of veterinary services in Andhra Pradesh. The various issues pertaining to the situational factors viz. policy support, input support, marketing support, industrial support, MNC intervention, export potentiality, institutional and organisational support were analysed, synthesised and discussed. The initiatives which will also influence the feasibility of privatisation of veterinary services were discussed at appropriate places.