National Livestock Mission

✅Government of India launched the National Livestock Mission in 2014-15 for the sustainable and continuous growth of the livestock sector. 

The Mission is designed to cover all the activities required to ensure quantitative and qualitative improvement in livestock production systems and capacity building of all stakeholders. This mission has been formulated with the objective of sustainable development of the livestock sector, focusing on improving availability of quality feed and fodder, risk coverage, effective extension, improved flow of credit and organization of livestock farmers/rearers. Given the high contribution of  

protein items in inflation, the growth of this sector has to match the rising demand reflected in increasing share of these items in consumption expenditure. 

▪️National Livestock Mission has four sub-missions as follows: 

✅ Sub-Mission on Fodder and Feed Development: It will address the problems of scarcity of animal feed resources, in order to give a push to the livestock sector making it a competitive enterprise for India, and also to harness its export potential. The major objective is to reduce the deficit to nil. 

✅Sub-Mission on Livestock Development: Under this sub-mission there are provisions for productivity enhancement, entrepreneurship development and employment generation, strengthening of infrastructure of state farms with respect to modernization, automation and bio security, conservation of threatened breeds, minor livestock development, rural  

slaughter houses, fallen animals and livestock insurance. 

✅Sub-Mission on Pig Development in North-Eastern Region: There has been persistent demand from the NE States seeking support for all round development of piggery in the region. For the first time, under the National Livestock Mission, a Sub-Mission on Pig Development in North-Eastern Region is provided wherein Government of India would  

support the State Piggery Farms, and importation of germplasm so that eventually the masses get the benefit as it is linked to livelihood and contributes in providing protein- rich food in 8 States of the NE Region. 

✅Sub-Mission on Skill Development, Technology Transfer and Extension: The extension machinery at field level for livestock activities is very weak. As a result, farmers are not able to adopt the technologies developed by research institutions. The emergence of new technologies and practices require linkages between stakeholders and this sub-mission will enable a wider outreach to the farmers. All the States, including NER States may avail the benefits of the multiple components and the flexibility of choosing them under National Livestock Mission for a sustainable livestock development. 

✅A separate ministry “Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying” has been carved  

out of “Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare” which emphasizes the focus of  

government in these areas. 

✅Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, under “Ministry of Fisheries, Animal  

Husbandry and Dairying” recently released the 20th Livestock Census report, as per which the livestock population has increased by 4.6% to 54 crore from the previous livestock census and Uttar Pradesh has the highest Livestock population.

✅ Share of livestock in GDP is around 5%

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