Question : Development of Animal Husbandry in Maharashtra

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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