Lok Sabha Question No. 809 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-07
Subject: National Livestock Mission
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Dileshwar Kamait

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 809

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 7 TH  FEBRUARY, 2023

## NATIONAL LIVESTOCK MISSION

809.SHRI DILESHWAR KAMAIT:

Will the Minister of FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING मत्स्यपालन , पशुपालनऔरडेयरीमंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a) the total number of centres set up by the Government in Bihar under National Livestock Mission,  Animal  Husbandry  Infrastructure  Development  Fund,  Livestock  Health  Disease Control Scheme and National Animal Disease Control Programme; and
- (b) the manner in which these schemes are working in the interest of the farmers, State/district-wise?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER FOR FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING (SHRI PARSHOTTAM RUPALA)

- (a) to  (b).  There  is  no  provision  for  setting  up  any  centre  under  National  Livestock Mission, Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund, Livestock Health and Disease Control Scheme and National Animal Disease Control Programme.

The  National  Livestock  Mission  (NLM)  aims  towards  employment  generation, entrepreneurship  development,  increase  in  per  animal  productivity and  thus targeting increased production of meat, goat milk, egg and wool. During last three years, no funds has been released to the State under NLM.

The Government is implementing Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme (LHDCP) a central Sector Scheme in all states with the aim of reducing risk to animal health by  prophylactic  vaccination  against  diseases  of  animals,  capacity  building  of  Veterinary services, disease surveillance and strengthening veterinary infrastructure. The major activities supported are for the control of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Brucellosis, Peste des Petits Ruminants  (PPR)  and  Classical  Swine  Fever  (CSF).   The  funding  pattern  is  100%  central assistance for the same. Further States/UTs are supported for establishing and strengthening mobile  veterinary  units  (MVUs);  and  Assistance  to  States  for  Control  of  economically important, exotic, emergent, and zoonotic animal diseases (ASCAD). Under Livestock Health and  Disease  Control  Programme  /  National  Animal  Disease  Control  Programme,  2,  01, 95,218  animals  have  been  ear-tagged  in  the  state  of  Bihar.  The  vaccination  programme  is being  run  in  the  State  for  Foot  and  Mouth  Disease  (FMD).  In  the  current  round  of  FMD vaccination, 1, 89, 84,982 animals have been vaccinated as on 31.01.2023. The district-wise details are given in Annexure-I.

The projects sanctioned  under Animal Husbandry  Infrastructure Development Fund are given in Annexure-II along with the relevant details of the scheme.

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## Number of animals ear tagged and vaccinated for FMD in Bihar (till 31

Annexure-I st January, 2023)

| S. No   | District          | Number of Vaccination   | FMD   | No. of Animals ear tagged   |
|---------|-------------------|-------------------------|-------|-----------------------------|
| 1       | Araria            | 8,65,300                |       | 8,53,498                    |
| 2       | Arwal             | 1,40,635                |       | 1,51,165                    |
| 3       | Aurangabad        | 4,42,367                |       | 5,62,581                    |
| 4       | Banka             | 7,15,950                |       | 7,54,022                    |
| 5       | Begusarai         | 4,88,917                |       | 5,02,986                    |
| 6       | Bhagalpur         | 7,97,484                |       | 8,39,545                    |
| 7       | Bhojpur           | 4,82,362                |       | 5,04,023                    |
| 8       | Buxar             | 3,37,339                |       | 3,50,316                    |
| 9       | Darbhanga         | 6,15,450                |       | 5,67,793                    |
| 10      | Gaya              | 7,37,837                |       | 8,74,960                    |
| 11      | Gopalganj         | 2,62,371                |       | 2,95,742                    |
| 12      | Jamui             | 4,46,408                |       | 4,62,248                    |
| 13      | Jehanabad         | 1,91,930                |       | 2,14,477                    |
| 14      | Kaimur (Bhabua)   | 4,37,691                |       | 4,49,800                    |
| 15      | Katihar           | 6,71,890                |       | 7,12,714                    |
| 16      | Khagaria          | 3,52,318                |       | 3,77,569                    |
| 17      | Kishanganj        | 5,83,216                |       | 5,84,831                    |
| 18      | Lakhisarai        | 1,76,773                |       | 1,91,161                    |
| 19      | Madhepura         | 4,94,063                |       | 5,90,958                    |
| 20      | Madhubani         | 8,28,187                |       | 9,27,828                    |
| 21      | Munger            | 2,20,750                |       | 2,31,905                    |
| 22      | Muzaffarpur       | 4,91,870                |       | 5,56,161                    |
| 23      | Nalanda           | 4,40,685                |       | 4,40,989                    |
| 24      | Nawada            | 4,56,415                |       | 4,77,129                    |
| 25      | PashchimChamparan | 5,61,480                |       | 5,98,429                    |
| 26      | Patna             | 6,86,749                |       | 7,20,676                    |
| 27      | PurbiChamparan    | 5,94,477                |       | 6,71,436                    |
| 28      | Purnia            | 9,87,304                |       | 8,38,903                    |
| 29      | Rohtas            | 6,13,288                |       | 6,23,676                    |
| 30      | Saharsa           | 5,72,250                |       | 5,92,342                    |
| 31      | Samastipur        | 5,60,818                |       | 6,77,630                    |
| 32      | Saran             | 3,07,182                |       | 4,83,927                    |
| 33      | Sheikhpura        | 1,25,816                |       | 1,27,174                    |
| 34      | Sheohar           | 78,029                  |       | 99,301                      |
| 35      | Sitamarhi         | 5,34,292                |       | 5,46,956                    |
| 36      | Siwan             | 4,24,613                |       | 4,63,577                    |
| 37      | Supaul            | 8,70,400                |       | 8,52,300                    |
| 38      | Vaishali          | 3,90,076                |       | 4,24,490                    |
| Total   | Total             | 1,89,84,982             |       | 2,01,95,218                 |

## Projects  sanctioned  under  Animal  Husbandry  Infrastructure  Development  Fund (AHIDF) in Bihar

|   Number of projects Sanctioned |   Project Cost (INR Cr.) |   Loan Amount (INR Cr.) |
|---------------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|
|                               4 |                   165.56 |                  112.35 |

## List of Sanctioned Projects in Bihar

| S. No .     | Name                                 |   Project Cost (INR Cr.) |   Loan Amount (INR Cr.) |   Interest Subvention Released (INR Cr.) | District     |
|-------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------------------------|--------------|
| 1           | Suguna Foods Private Limited         |                    10.66 |                    8    |                                     0.15 | Muzaffarpu r |
| 2           | Abis Exports India Private Limited   |                   100    |                   75    |                                     0.19 | Muzaffarpu r |
| 3           | Saran Dairy Producer Company Limited |                    12.13 |                    5.35 |                                     0.03 | Gopalganj    |
| 4           | ABZ Agro Foods Limited               |                    42.77 |                   24    |                                     1.17 | Kishanganj   |
| Grand Total | Grand Total                          |                   165.56 |                  112.35 |                                     1.54 | -            |

Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) is a Central Sector Scheme, a credit  linked  scheme  with  a  corpus  of  INR  15000  crore.  The  Scheme  was  approved  on 24/06/2020 which incentivizes investments by individual entrepreneurs, private companies, MSME, Farmers Producers Organizations (FPOs) and Section 8 companies to establish (i) the dairy processing and value addition infrastructure, (ii) meat processing and value addition infrastructure,  (iii)  Animal  Feed  Plant,  (iv)  Breed  Improvement  technology  and  Breed Multiplication  Farm  (v)  Animal  Waste  to  Wealth  Management  (Agri  Waste  Management) and (vi) Setting up of Veterinary Vaccine and Drugs Manufacturing facilities. The eligible entities which want to avail benefits under AHIDF need to taken loan from scheduled banks or NCDC. Eligible entities are eligible for interest subvention of 3% over a period of 8 years or till the time of loan repayment, whichever is earlier, with no limit on term loan amount. Under the scheme, term loan may be up to 90% of the project cost. Eligible MSMEs may avail 25% Credit Guarantee Coverage under the scheme.