Union Cabinet approves inclusion of additional activities in National Livestock Mission
The Union Cabinet
chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved further modification of
National Livestock Mission by including the additional activities as under:
1. Establishment of
entrepreneurship for horse donkey, mule, camel with 50% capital subsidy up to
50 lakhs will be provided to the Individuals, FPO, SHG, JLG, FCO and Section 8
companies. Also, the state government will be assisted for breed conservation
of horse, donkey and camel. The Central Government will provide 10 crore for
establishment of semen station and nucleus breeding farm for horse, donkey and
camel.
2.
Establishment of entrepreneurs for Fodder Seed Processing Infrastructure
(Processing & Grading unit/Fodder storage godown) with 50% capital subsidy
up to Rs 50 lakhs to the private companies, start-ups /SHGs /FPOs /FCOs /JLGs /
Farmers’ Cooperative societies (FCO), Section 8 companies establishment of
Infrastructure like construction of building, receiving shed, drying platform,
machinery etc. including the grading plants as well as seed storage godown. The
remaining cost of the project needs to be arranged by the beneficiary through
bank finance or self-funding.
3.
For increasing the fodder cultivation areas, the state government will
be assisted for fodder cultivation in the non —forest land, waste land/range
land/ non arable as well as forest land "Non-Forest
Wasteland/Rangeland/Non-arable Land" and "Fodder Production from
Forest Land" as well as in the degraded forest land. This will increase
the fodder availability in the country.
4.
The Livestock Insurance programme has been simplified. The beneficiary
share of the premium for the farmers has been reduced and it will be 15% as
against the current beneficiary share of 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%. Remaining
amount of the premium will be shared by the Centre and the State at 60:40 for
all states and 90:10 for hill states. The number of animals to be insured has
also been increased to 10 cattle unit instead of 5 cattle unit for cattle sheep
and goat. This will facilitate the livestock farmers to get their valuable
animals insured with by paying minimum amount.
The NLM was
commenced in 2014-15 with four Sub Missions (i) Sub Mission on Fodder and Feed
Development (ii) Sub-Mission on Livestock Development (ii) Sub Mission on Pig
Development in North-Eastern Region (iii) Sub Mission on Skill Development,
Technology Transfer and Extension having 50 activities.
The Scheme was realigned
during 2021-22 and was approved by CCEA in July, 2021 under Development
Programme with an outlay of Rs.2300 crore.
The present realigned
NLM is having three Sub Missions viz (i) Sub Mission on Breed improvement of
Livestock and Poultry (ii) Sub Mission of Feed & Fodder and (iii) Sub Mission
on Innovation and Extension. The re-aligned NLM has 10 activities and target
towards entrepreneurship development, feed and fodder development, research and
innovation, livestock insurance.