Lok Sabha Question No. 388 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-20
Subject: Development of Animal Husbandry in Maharashtra
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Sambhajirao Mane Dhairyasheel, Unmesh Bhaiyyasaheb Patil, Unmesh Bhaiyyasaheb Patil, Heena Vijaykumar Gavit, Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhepatil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING

## DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 388 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20 TH  JULY, 2021

## DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IN MAHARASHTRA

388.  SHRI DHAIRYASHEEL SAMBHAJIRAO MANE:

DR. SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE:

SHRI UNMESH BHAIYYASHEEB PATIL:

DR. HEENA GAVIT:

DR. SUJAY RADHAKRISHNA VIKHE PATIL:

Will the Minister of FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING

मत्स्यपाऱन , पशुपाऱन और डेयरी मंत्री

be pleased to state:

- a) the schemes formulated by the Government for the development of animal husbandry in the State of Maharashtra besides agriculture sector;
- b) the facilities likely to be offered by the Government to farmers under this scheme;
- c) whether the Government has any plan to promote dairy industry, if so, the details thereof;
- d) whether there is any scheme in place to help farmers during the non-productive period of cows and buffaloes; and
- e) the details of the funds allocated and released to the State Government of Maharashtra under the National Dairy Development Scheme?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING

(Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan)

(a) to (d) In order to supplement efforts of the States/UTs  for development of animal husbandry sector, the Government is implementing various schemes across the country including Maharashtra namely;

- I. Rashtriya  Gokul  Mission(RGM) :  For  development  and  conservation  of  indigenous  bovine breeds.
- II. National  Programme  for  Dairy  Development  (NPDD): For creating/strengthening of infrastructure  for  production  of  quality  milk,  procurement,  processing  and  marketing    of  milk and milk products by State Implementing Agency.
- III. Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund(DIDF): For creation /modernization /expansion of dairy processing, chilling and value addition infrastructure.
- IV. Supporting  Dairy  Cooperatives  and  Farmer  Producer  Organizations  engaged  in  dairy activities (SDC&FPO): To assist the Dairy Cooperatives and Farmer Producer organisations by providing soft loan for working capital and to provide stable market access to the dairy farmers.
- V. National  Livestock  Mission(NLM): For  sustainable  growth  and  development  of  livestock sector particularly sheep/goat/pig and poultry & increasing availability of feed and fodder, risk management and livestock insurance.
- VI. Animal  Husbandry  Infrastructure  Development  Fund(AHIDF): Incentivizing  investments by  individual  entrepreneurs,  private  companies,  MSME,  Farmers  Producers  Organizations (FPOs) and Section 8 companies  to establish (i) dairy processing and value addition infrastructure, (ii) meat processing and value addition infrastructure and (iii) Animal Feed Plant.
- VII. Livestock  Health  &  Disease  Control(LH&DC): For  control  and  containment  of  livestock diseases.
- VIII. National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP): To control Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) and Brucellosis and eventual eradication of FMD.

Rashtriya  Gokul Mission (RGM) is being implemented for enhancement of milk production and productivity of bovines and thereby making milk production more remunerative to farmers. All States and UTs including Maharashtra are benefitting from this scheme. Under the scheme technical and financial assistance are made available to farmers for extension of artificial insemination coverage, implementation of modern reproductive biotechniques including  In vitro  fertilization,  genomics,  sex sorted semen etc.

- (e)   The details of the funds allocated and released to the State Government of Maharashtra under the National Programme for Dairy Development Scheme are as under:

(Rs in lakh)

| Sr No   | District covered                                                                                                                                  | Year of approval   |   Approved cost |   Central Share |   Fund Released |
|---------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| i.      | Ahmednagar, Aurangabad &Sangli                                                                                                                    | 2018-19            |          427.75 |          368.25 |          368.25 |
| ii.     | Solapur, Ahmednagar, Sangli, Pune, Jalgaon, Aurangabad,Beed, Nasik, Bhandara, Mumbai , Kolhapur, Karad, Osmanabad, Latur, Dhule, Nagpur and Akola | 2019 - 20          |         2629.76 |         2629.76 |         1314.88 |
| iii.    | Beed, Sangli, Ahmednagar, Pune, Latur, Solapur, Kolhapur, Jalgoan                                                                                 | 2020-21            |         1889.47 |         1509.16 |         1509.16 |
|         | Total                                                                                                                                             |                    |         4946.98 |         4507.17 |         3192.29 |

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