Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying organizes 4000 village level awareness camps in Aspirational Districts on Entrepreneurship schemes
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As part of Aazadi Ka
Amrit Mahostav, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying organized awareness
Programmes on Entrepreneurship and other beneficiary-oriented schemes of the
Department through Common Service Centres network by holding 4000 village level
camps across the Aspirational Districts. Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh,
Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Dairying chaired the meeting on 22.02.2023 and
23.02.2023 respectively. Attendees were given complete information about these
schemes, as well as how to apply on the scheme portal through the CSC itself.
Around 2 lakh farmers joined the awareness Programme virtually from Common
Service Centers.
Union Minister of
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala addressed the
farmers connected through camps and informed that as the National Livestock
Mission and Rashtriya Gokul Mission schemes now have a component of breeder
farm entrepreneurs and fodder entrepreneurs. National Livestock Mission (NLM)
will help in creating rural Entrepreneurship and help in creating better livelihood
opportunity for unemployed youth and livestock farmers in the Cattle, Dairy,
poultry, sheep, goat, piggery, feed and fodder sector paving the way towards
Atma Nirbhar Bharat.
During the
interaction with farmers, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Secretary, Animal Husbandry and
Dairying emphasized that these schemes will bring sharp focus on
entrepreneurship development and breed improvement in rural poultry, sheep,
goat and piggery including feed and fodder development. The Government is
implementing various schemes/programmes to enhance poultry productivity, milk
and meat production, for attaining nutritional security, employment generation
and economic prosperity for the country. The overarching vision of the
Department for the sector correlates to enhancement in productivity of
livestock in a sustainable and profitable manner. The impact and success of the
schemes were explained with the help of presentations and videos.