Punjab Government has chalked out a mega plan to create awareness amongst milk producers through milk production awareness camps in the State.
“The motive of these ambitious awareness camps to provide professional skills and by these modernize techniques would ensure the health of milching animals and defiantly enhance the daily production of milk,” the state Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Minister Gulzar Singh Ranike.
Ranike said that dairy farming is scientific venture and required consecutive improvements for concrete success on the long run of cattle rearer.
In order to aware cattle rearer, Punjab Government is organizing milk production awareness camps at the state level which covered all districts and villages.
In 2015-16, Dairy Development Board had set the target of 198 camps to cover 24,078 participants while it crossed the target figure to 211 camps and covered 27,078 participants with the tireless efforts made by Dairy Development Board.
Minister said that concerned experts has been provided the updated and hi-tech information of milching breeds, necessary health care tips for animals as per their age format, neutralised diet, designs of cattle shed as per statues of whether, build up techniques to prevent diseases, formation of fertilizer by animal wastage and strategy to increase the daily income by direct marketing during these profession training sessions.
The State Dairy Development Department director Inderjit Singh said that major assignment of the department is to facilitate right information and facts at right time on the doorstep of the milk producers.
“Professional and modernize techniques are providing according to the needs and requirements of the specific area. Apart from field officers of the department, experts from Milkfed and Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University also enrich professional skill of milk producers,” he said.