With a view to promote animal husbandry business and more importantly, to meet the fodder requirements in the State, the State Government is going to set up fodder banks in every nyay panchayats.
The fodder banks are being set up at every block. Soon the same facility will be extended to the every nyay panchayat level, said Pritam Singh Panwar, the State Urban Development and Animal Husbandry Minister, while dedicating a veterinary hospital to the public here on Tuesday. At the same time the minister also emphasised on the need to complete the construction works on time so that people particularly the farmers could avail the facilities, adding keeping in view the natural calamities that the hill state had to face this year, the Government will provide necessary facilities to the farmers free of cost for three months in the State.
In the meanwhile Panwar also called upon the officials concerned to make the farmers aware about different Government schemes so that the farmers could make the most of these popular schemes. He also assured the farmers to provide necessary assistance from the Government saying necessary steps are also being taken to increase milk production so that income of the farmers could also go up. And, more so, efforts are also on to explore other employment scopes for the farmers, he added.
Speaking on this occasion, State Finance Minister Indira Hridayesh said that the Government has launched many popular schemes for farmers engaged in animal husbandry sector in the State and about 50 per cent subsidy is being granted under many schemes. Therefore, the farmers are supposed to make the most of these schemes, she added.