Lok Sabha Question No. 333 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-05
Subject: e-GOPALA App
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Reddeppa Nallakonda Gari

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

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 333

TO BE ANSWERED ON 5 th  DECEMBER, 2023

## E-GOPALA APP

## 333. SHRI N. REDDEPPA:

Will the Minister of FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING मत्स्यपालन , पशुपालन और डेयरी मंत्री

be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the e-GOPALA app launched for helping farmers in managing livestock including buying and selling of disease free germplasm in all forms;
- (b) the progress made in this respect and the benefits realized there from; and
- (c) the details of other such measures being taken to help farmers in managing their livestock?

## ANSWER

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

(a)  and  (b)  Recognising  the  need  of  a  digital  platform  to  help  dairy  farmers  for  managing  their animals, the Department has developed an android and web-based application called 'e- GOAPLA'. Hon'ble  Prime  Minister  inaugurated  the  e-GOPALA  App  in  September  2020  for  direct  use  by  the farmers. This application is available in 12 languages viz. Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Odiya, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Assamese and English.

The application provides various information to the farmers and helps in:

- (i) It  helps  farmers  to  formulate  balanced  ration  for  dairy  animals  using  locally  available  feed ingredients optimising the feed costs while increasing productivity and reproductive efficacy.
- (ii) It helps farmers in management of nearly 29 common ailments of dairy animals e.g. mastitis, indigestion, diarrhoea etc. using Ethno-Veterinary Medicine (EVM). This section also contains videos  in  various  languages  on  disease  management  protocols  through  Ethno-  Veterinary Medicine.
- (iii) Provides digital platform for buying/selling of dairy animals, information on source of quality semen  doses  available  for  various  breeds  of  cattle  and  buffaloes  and  contact  details  for availability of IVF embryos and sex-sorted semen.
- (iv) Provides real-time information on breeding, nutrition and health of their animals from NDLM data base.
- (v) It provides timely alerts on due date for vaccination, pregnancy diagnosis, calving etc. as well as information about various schemes on dairying and animal husbandry.
- (vi) Farmers can also directly connect to call centre for their queries on animal health, nutrition and breeding though this App.

The app has been uploaded in UMANG portal and made available to 5.7 crore users registered on the portal. The app is being subsumed under NDLM portal.

(c) As a measure to help farmers in managing their livestock, the Department has launched National Digital Livestock Mission (NDLM) to create a farmer-centric, technology-enabled ecosystem where the farmers are able to realize better income through livestock activities with the right information and enabling infrastructure to obtain timely, high quality services and access to markets as a result of wellfunctioning,  connected  systems  that  optimize  for  sustainable  economic  opportunities  and  health  of both the animals and the people.

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