The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday decided to revise and realign schemes of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying and implement them as part of the special livestock sector package over the next five years starting from 2021-22 fiscal, in a bid to leverage an investment of ` 54,618 crore. As per the revision, all the schemes of the department will be merged into three broad categories.
“This package envisages the central government's support amounting to `9,800 crore over the duration of five years for leveraging a total investment of `54,618 crore for five years,” according to an official statement. The schemes have been realigned and revised in order to further boost growth in the livestock sector and thereby making animal husbandry more remunerative to the 10 crore farmers engaged in this sector, it said. As per the cabinet decision for livestock sector, 1500 mobile veterinary clinics will be established in the country to deliver animal health services at doorstep of 10 crore farmers engaged in animal husbandry.
After the CCEA decision, Union Cabinet Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala said that more than 50 lakh farmers will get direct and indirect employment opportunities in the Cattle, Dairy, poultry, sheep, goat, piggery, feed and fodder sector, through the schemes announced. “Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) assisted dairying through cooperatives will support dairy value chain in State of Uttar Pradesh & Bihar having dairying potential. Under JICA programme over 4500 villages would get fresh or strengthened infrastructure and create 8.96 lakh litre per day (LLPD) chilling, 7 LLPD processing
capacity with incremental procurement of about 14.20 LLPD from 1.5 Lakh additional dairy farmers,” Rupala said.
“Revised disease control programmes will prevent annual loss to the farmer's amount to `8,900 crore due to PPR in sheep and goats and `200 crore due to classical swine fever in pigs.