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23/03/22 07:06 AM IST

E-GOPALA PORTAL

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  • Recognising the need of a digital platform to help dairy farmers for managing their animals, the Department has developed an android and web-based application called “e- GOAPLA”.
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  •  Hon’ble Prime Minister inaugurated the e-GOPALA App in September 2020 for direct use by the farmers.
  • This application is available in 12 languages viz. Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Odiya, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Assamese and English.
  • It helps farmers to formulate balanced ration for dairy animals using locally available feed ingredients optimising the feed costs while increasing productivity and reproductive efficacy.
  • It helps farmers in management of nearly 29 common ailments of dairy animals e.g. mastitis, indigestion, diarrhoea etc. using Ethno-Veterinary Medicine (EVM).
  • This section also contains videos in various languages on disease management protocols through Ethno- Veterinary Medicine.
  • Provides digital platform for buying/selling of dairy animals, information on source of quality semen doses available for various breeds of cattle and buffaloes and contact details for availability of IVF embryos and sex-sorted semen.
  • Provides real-time information on breeding, nutrition and health of their animals from INAPH.
  • It provides timely alerts on due date for vaccination, pregnancy diagnosis, calving etc. as well as information about various schemes on dairying and animal husbandry.
  • Farmers can also directly connect to call centre for their queries on animal health, nutrition and breeding though this App.
  •  Under Rashtriya Gokul Mission Government of India has been promoting is use of sex sorted semen for production of female calves with 90% accuracy. The extensive use of sex sorted semen will limit stray cattle population in the country.
Source - PIB 

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