Why Union Budget 2022-23 will help India’s dairy and livestock farmers
Union Budget 2022-23 is expected to boost the dairying and livestock sector with a host of measures to make it sustainable amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dairy is the single-largest agricommodity in India. It contributes five per cent to the national economy and employs 80 million dairy farmers directly. A revival in economic activities, increasing per capita consumption of milk […]
Why Union Budget 2022-23 will help India’s dairy and livestock farmers
Union Budget 2022-23 is expected to boost the dairying and livestock sector with a host of measures to make it sustainable amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dairy is the single-largest agricommodity in India. It contributes five per cent to the national economy and employs 80 million dairy farmers directly. A revival in economic activities, increasing per capita consumption of milk […]
The budget for Dairying ministry has been increased by 44 percent
Union Budget for the FY22 presented by Union Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitaraman has allocated Rs 6,407.31 crore for the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying. The budget allocation for Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying has been increased by 44 percent. Shri Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary for the Department of Animal Husbandry & […]
Unified quality logo for dairy sector will open up International markets
For India’s dairy sector, December 23, 2021, was a landmark day. On this day the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) with the help of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) issued a unified system for quality and safety of milk and dairy products across the country. The integrated logo of Kamdhenu Cow – a seal of […]
Milk production in the country is Rs 8 lakh crore : Parshottam Rupala
The annual growth rate in the livestock sector in the country is more than eight percent in the last five years. This rate is even higher than the manufacturing sector. Milk production in the country is Rs 8 lakh crore, which is more than the total production of wheat, pulses and oilseeds. This information was […]
DAIRY NEWS Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and DAHD signs MOU for livestock dev.
The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD), Government of India and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have signed a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding to work together on sustainably improving India’s livestock sector to support the nation’s food and nutritional security, and protect the economic wellbeing of small-scale livestock producers. The event was organized as […]
Dairy Investment Accelerator set up to facilitate investments by the DAHD
The government on Monday said it has set up Dairy Investment Accelerator to promote and facilitate investments in the Indian dairy sector. The accelerator, set up by the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) under its Investment Facilitation Cell, is a cross-functional team constituted to serve as the interface with investors, a government statement […]
Livestock schemes to be merged, get ₹9,800 crore over 5 years
The Central government will spend ₹9,800 crore on livestock development over the next five years. It will be done in a bid to leverage almost ₹55,000 crore of outside investment into the sector. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) decided on Wednesday. It would do this by merging a slew of schemes into three […]
Animal husbandry department is looking at creating Cow factories in India
The Animal Husbandry department is looking at creating ‘cow factories’ in which embryos and semen from superior breed cattle, fertilised in labs, will then be implanted into low-productive cows owned by farmers. Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary (Animal Husbandry), told ThePrint that since 2017 — when the first calf was born in India through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) […]
India targets avg milk yield from 1861 to 3000 Kgs/yr : Atul Chaturvedi
India’s journey from a milk deficit country to one of surplus has been momentous. Initiated in 1970, Operation Flood was arguably the world’s most ambitious dairy development programme that transformed India into one of the largest milk producers. India’s milk production rate in the past few decades has, in many ways, been symbolic of the […]