This Division provides the following services in the areas of Animal Health and Production to the livestock farmers and pet owners of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
- Veterinary medical attention to government and privately owned animals.
- Control and prevention of transmission of animal diseases to man.
- Assistance in livestock production, educational programmes for farmers in the livestock industry.
- Improvement of livestock in the State through a programme of artificial insemination.
- Establishment of veterinary programmes to investigate, prevent and control livestock diseases.
- Control of the import and export of animal and animal products.
- Increasing the quantity and quality of animals produced.
- Maintaining an adequate stock of pedigree animals for breeding and distribution.
- Training farmers in animal husbandry.
- Demonstrating proper methods of livestock production.