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Plan to improve productivity of Indian cows

Plan to improve productivity of Indian cows

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Publication: The Times of India
Date: January 28, 2003

The ministry has approved a three-year programme to improve the productivity of cows and buffaloes in Uttar Pradesh through genetics. An amount four times the entire spending for this purpose over the Previous two decades has been sanctioned.

India has a fifth of the world's bovines and is the biggest producer of milk, with UP the first in India. However, productivity is low. The world average is more than two tonnes of milk in each lactation cycle of an animal; India's average is less than a tonne, which is why a ten-year national project in this regard was launched in the year 2000. The UP grant is a component of this; 16 other states are to be covered, too.

Union agriculture minister Ajit Singh handed the first installment of Rs 10.6 crore, a fifth of the three-year sanctioned amount for UP, to the state government at a ceremony on Monday.

The aim is to either use artificial insemination (AI) or high-quality bulls on all breedable cattle in the state, the service being provided at all farms.
 


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