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Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying unveils National Digital Livestock Mission Blueprint at NDDB.

Aim

The aim is to create a farmer-centric, technology-enabled ecosystem where the farmers are able to realize better income through livestock activities with the right information.

Details

• NDLM will be the unique identification of all livestock, which will be the foundation for all the state and national level programmes including domestic and international trade.
  
• The farmers will be able to effortlessly access the markets, irrespective of their location or holdings through this digital platform as a wide-range of stake-holders will be connected in this ecosystem.
  
• This system will also include robust animal breeding systems, nutrition, disease surveillance, disease control programmes and a traceability mechanism for animals and animal products.
• The bio slurry produced is primarily used by the farmers in their own field and surplus bio slurry gets sold to other farmers or converted in to organic fertilisers.
• Genetic improvement and raising productivity of the Indian bovine population remained the key focus when the Hon’ble Union Minister visited NDDB’s modern Ovum Pick Up & In Vitro Embryo Production (OPU-IVEP) facility.

National Livestock Mission

• National Livestock Mission is an initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.
• The mission, which commenced from 2014-15, has the objective of sustainable development of the livestock sector.
• NABARD is the subsidy channelising agency for following schemes, under Entrepreneurship Development & Employment Generation (EDEG) component of National Livestock Mission.
• Poultry Venture Capital Fund (PVCF)
• Integrated Development of Small Ruminants and Rabbit (IDSRR)
• Pig Development (PD)
• Salvaging and Rearing of Male Buffalo Calves (SRMBC)
• Effective Animal Waste Management
• Construction of Storage Facility for Feed and Fodder

Source: PIB