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Rs 51,077 crore needed to operationalise National Action Plan for dairy
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Saturday, 15 September, 2018, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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Vast opportunities exist today for dairy entrepreneurs, and in order to concretise these opportunities and help double the incomes of dairy farmers, Rs 51,077 crore is needed to operationalise the National Action Plan (Vision-2024).
This was stated by Radha Mohan Singh, minister of agriculture and farmers’ welfare, Government of India, at the inauguration ceremony of the Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF), which took place in New Delhi recently.
Singh said that as a result of the announcement of Union Budget 2017-18, the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (DADF) started the DIDF with an outlay of Rs 10,881 crore. Under this, the first installment of Rs 440 crore was given to the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
He added that with this scheme, 95,00,000 farmers in about 50,000 villages will benefit. In addition to this, many skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers will get employment, directly and indirectly.
An additional milk processing capacity of 126 lakh litre per day, milk drying capacity of 210 metric tonne (MT) per day, milk chilling capacity of 140 lakh litre per day shall be created.
Under this scheme, milk cooperatives will be provided financial assistance of Rs 8,004 crore in the form of a loan at 6.5 per cent interest, which will be reimbursed over a period of 10 years. The government has also given a provision of interest subsidy on loans.
Till now, 15 sub-projects with a total approved outlay of Rs 1148.61 crore pertaining to three states, namely Karnataka, Punjab and Haryana, have been sanctioned. Of these five are in Karnataka (with an outlay of Rs 776.39 crore), four are in Punjab (with an outlay of Rs 318.01 crore) and six are in Haryana (with an outlay of Rs 54.21 crore).
Singh informed that the implementation of the World Bank-funded National Dairy Plan Phase-I scheme was also being done by NDDB through the state government’s cooperative milk organisations/milk federations. The government is now implementing this scheme in 18 states from the earlier 14 states.
The implementation of the National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD) is being done by the state’s cooperative/milk federations. Under this scheme, an assistance of Rs 560.46 crore was given between 2014 and 2018 for the development of cooperative milk committees and incentives to increase the number of milk producers and processing and refrigeration capacity.
The minister said that in order to increase production, under the flagship scheme, Rashtriya Gokul Mission, 10 semen centres have been identified for the production of sex-sorted semen for the production of more female animals. Also, 20 embryo transfer technology (ETT) centres are being set up for the production of high genetic merit bulls of indigenous bovine breeds. Besides, Induschip has been developed for genomic selection of indigenous breeds and 6,000 dairy animals have been genetically evaluated using Induschip.
Singh also added that under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission, the current government, till March 2018, approved projects worth Rs 1,600 crore in 29 states, out of which Rs 686 crores has been released. 20 Gokul Grams are also being established under this scheme.
Apart from this, for the conservation of indigenous breeds, two National Kamdhenu Breeding Centres, one in Chintaladevi, Andhra Pradesh, and other in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh, are being established.
The minister also asserted that the e-Pashuhaat portal, launched in 2016, was a landmark initiative. It is playing an important role in connecting breeders and farmers. He appealed to the members present to speed up efforts to achieve the goal by 2022.
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