Year end review of Animal Husbandry and Dairy for the year 2025
Hon’ble Prime Minister inaugurates Regional Center of Excellence (CoE) for Indigenous Breeds established at Motihari with an investment of Rs 33.80 crore. Genotyping of 75000 animals from the first IVF laboratory of North Eastern region towards milk production and breed improvement. The livestock sector continues to strengthen India’s agricultural economy; It is growing at a…
Rajasthan reports strong rise in dairy, animal-husbandry output
The Rajasthan government says its dairy and animal-husbandry sector has shown significant growth over the past two years, with milk production, processing capacity and cooperative-sector performance all improving. Economic turnaround & increased turnover State data show that annual turnover from milk production and cattle-feed in Rajasthan rose from ₹ 8,000 crore to ₹ 10,000 crore,…
Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund
The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying is implementing Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund and one of the objectives of the schemes is to make available increase price realization for the producer. Through the Infrastructure development in the livestock sector, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying is supporting individual entrepreneurs, private companies, Farmers Producers Organizations…
A Critical Lens on Dairy Budget Allocation: The Unseen Gaps
Over the past few years, the budget allocation for dairy has seen limited growth, with funds primarily directed toward livestock health and Rashtriya Gokul Mission. However, the critical areas of dairy infrastructure, feed & fodder, and farmer-centric incentives have been consistently underfunded. Last year, in the post-election 2024-25 budget, the absence of dairy from the…
Dairy transformation in Jharkhand
Farmers and livestock rearers in rural Jharkhand are increasingly turning to animal husbandry as a promising source of additional income, an official said on Wednesday. It is providing them a safeguard from crop loss due to erratic weather patterns for the past few years. Jharkhand suffered a drought-like situation in two consecutive years in 2022…
Animal Husbandry Sector to create FMD-Free Bharat- Lalan Singh
Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying today review the measures taken by the department towards FMD-Free Bharat (FMD-Foot & Mouth Disease) with vaccination by 2030. Shri Singh said that the Livestock sector is an important sector contributing not only to the Indian economy but to the…
Budget 2024-25 Missing Dairy Focus again
The much-awaited budget for FY 25 by Modi 3.0 has been presented. As a dairy farmer, I searched the Finance Minister’s speech for words such as cow, livestock, dairy, milk, animal husbandry, methane, manure, FMD, Brucellosis, and biogas. Unfortunately, none of these terms were mentioned even once. I then looked for other key terms and…
Delhi High Court pulls up Animal Husbandry Unit over violations in dairy colonies
The Delhi High Court has come down heavily on the Animal Husbandry Unit of the Delhi government, observing that there is a “lack of will” in State functionaries to stop the “rampant violation of laws” by dairy owners in the nine dairy colonies in the Capital. “These violations not only affect the public health of…
Environmental enrichment in dairy farming: Enhancing emotional lives of cows
It is a well-known fact that emotions play a pivotal role in the lives of animals. Various studies and researches have shown that the influence of the environment on the emotions of dairy cows is significant enough, and can be thoroughly interpreted through its behaviour. The impact of environment on emotions A fresh and verdurous…
Bharat Pashudhan App as conceived a decade back in our Vision 2030
When I heard about the launch of Bharat Pashudhan App by our Prime Minister Modi ji, I was elated . The roots of this joy stemmed from my recommendation of the 5-I model, which I included in our Dairy Industry Vision 2030 document launched on February 20th, 2014. The vision document could be downloaded from…