Lok Sabha Question No. 1434 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-09
Subject: Programmes  for Livestock Farmers
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Shri Jai Parkash

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING

## DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1434

TO BE ANSWERED ON 09 TH  DECEMBER, 2025

## PROGRAMMES FOR LIVESTOCK FARMERS

## 1434. SHRI JAI PRAKASH:

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

be pleased to state:

- (a) whether awareness programs, training camps, vaccination, nutrition management and scientific animal husbandry campaigns are being organized by the Government regularly for livestock farmers in the Hisar Lok Sabha Constituency of Haryana;
- (b) whether it is fact that livestock farmers in many rural areas of the region are not receiving  timely  information  on  improved  breeds,  fodder  development,  artificial insemination and disease control;
- (c)  whether the Government is contemplating upon conducting a comprehensive district-level awareness campaign, increasing the number of mobile veterinary units and expanding specialist training programmes in Hisar;
- (d) whether the Union Government proposes to provide additional support for these programmes under a specific budget or special scheme; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof along with the time-limit fixed in this regard?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING (SHRI RAJIV RANJAN SINGH ALIAS LALAN SINGH)

- (a) & (b) Animal Husbandry is a State subject, however, in order to supplement the efforts  of  the  State  Governments  and  Union  Territories  (UTs)  to  create  awareness amongst  Livestock farmers regarding vaccination, nutrition  management,  the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD), GoI has made awareness generation as integral part of the schemes like Rashtriya Gokul Mission, Livestock Health  and  Disease  Control  Programme,  National  Livestock  Mission,  National Programme for Dairy Development etc. as under:
- I. Rashtriya Gokul Mission: - Government of India is implementing Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) since December 2014 for development and conservation of indigenous breeds, genetic upgradation of bovine population and

enhancement of milk production and productivity across the country including Haryana.  One  of  the  components  of  the  scheme  is  organization  of  farmer awareness programmes including organization of fertility camps, milk yield competition,  calf  rallies  and  farmer  training  programme.  Latest  breeding technologies are being made  accessible to farmers including Artificial Insemination (AI) with sex sorted semen, Bovine In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), and  genomic  selection.  Further,  funds  have  been  released  to  the  States  for generating awareness among farmers under the component of Nationwide AI Programme.

- II. Livestock  Health  &  Disease  Control  Programme  (LHDCP):  -  DAHD, GoI is supporting the States/UTs to increase livestock productivity and augmenting livestock  health  care  through  the  implementation  of  Livestock  Health  & Disease Control Programme (LHDCP), which is a Central Sector Scheme, in all States/UTs, with the aim of reducing risk to animal health by prophylactic vaccination  against  diseases  of  animals,  capacity  building  of  Veterinary services, disease surveillance, training and awareness, strengthening Veterinary infrastructure etc. The major activities supported are vaccination against Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Brucellosis, Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) and Classical Swine Fever (CSF) under 100% central assistance, Assistance  to  States  for  Control  of  Animal  Disease  (ASCAD)  for control of state prioritized animal diseases including 100 % financial assistance to States/UTs for awareness training and publicity  on  Good  Animal Husbandry Practices and Veterinary care.
- III. National  Livestock  Mission:  -  The  DAHD,  GoI  is  implementing  Centrally Sponsored Scheme 'National Livestock Mission' with a Sub Mission on Feed and Fodder Development. The Scheme is operational all over the country since 2014-15. The Mission was realigned in July 2021 and modified in March 2024. The Sub-Mission on feed and fodder is having following components:
- i. Assistance for Quality Fodder Seed Production
- ii. Entrepreneurial activities in feed and fodder
- iii. Establishment  of  Entrepreneurs  for  Fodder  Seed  processing  Infrastructure (processing and grading unit/ fodder seed storage godown)
- iv. Fodder production from Non-Forest Wasteland/Rangeland/Non-arable Land and Fodder Production from Forest Land

Besides,  Indian  Council  of  Agricultural  Research  (ICAR)-Indian  Grassland  and Fodder  Research  Institute  Jhansi  has  prepared  Fodder  Resource  Development Plans for 29 States which has been circulated to them for its implementation.

Further, as per the information received from the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Govt. of Haryana, 166 livestock farmers have been provided 11-day training  on  Dairy/Piggery/Sheep/Goat  at  block-level  Veterinary  Hospitals,  and  a total of 178 Infertility-Health Camps have been organized at Veterinary Institutions during the current FY 2025-26 in the Hisar Lok Sabha Constituency.

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has also established three Krishi Vigyan  Kendras  (KVKs)  in  the  Hisar  Lok  Sabha  Constituency -KVKs  of  Hisar,

Bhiwani and Jind districts -for disseminating new technologies in Agriculture and Allied  sectors,  including  Animal  Husbandry.  These  KVKs  carry  out  technology assessment, demonstrations, and capacity-building programmes for State Government extension functionaries and farmers. As part of their mandate, the KVKs impart  training  to  farmers,  farm  women,  and  rural  youth,  and  organize  various extension activities across different aspects of agriculture and allied sectors.

Moreover, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India, has  also  conducted  two  virtual  awareness  programmes  through  Common  Service Centres (CSC) for livestock farmers, under which 66 camps have been organized in Hisar district, Haryana, during the current year 2025-26.

(c)  to  (e)  Under  the  component  Establishment  and  Strengthening  of  Veterinary Hospitals & Dispensaries -Mobile Veterinary Units (ESVHD-MVU) of the Livestock Health  and  Disease  Control  Programme,  70  Mobile  Veterinary  Units  (MVUs)  are currently  operational  in  Haryana.  Further,  under  the  Livestock  Health  &  Disease Control Programme (LHDCP), funds are provided annually to the State Government under the Assistance to States for Control of Animal Disease (ASCAD) component for training purposes.