Year Ender 2020: A have a look at Centre’s schemes to provide fillip to Animal Husbandry, empower dairy farmers

New Delhi: In the second tenure of NDA regime, Narendra Modi authorities has launched slew of initiatives to empower farmers and the farming neighborhood. Doubling farmers’ earnings has been one of many key objectives set by Prime Minister and the federal government is rolling out numerous measures to realize the identical.
As PM Modi gave a clarion name for creation of AtmaNirbhar Bharat, the Centre has launched Rs 15,000 Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund. This transfer will more than likely enhance earnings of farmers catering to livestock and can give impetus to funding and sectorial infrastructure within the dairy sector.
The authorities additionally launched nationwide synthetic insemination program underneath which 2.64 lakh synthetic insemination have been carried out, thereby in flip benefitting 1.73 lakh farmers.
Special drive was additionally undertaken to supply concessional credit score to PM-KISAN beneficiaries by way of Kisan Credit playing cards.
Initiatives to spice up Animal Husbandry & Dairy Sector:

1) Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund
The Prime Minister has introduced for establishing of Rs. 15000 crore Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund underneath AtmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan stimulus bundle.AHIDF has been authorised for incentivizing investments by particular person entrepreneurs, non-public firms, MSME, Farmers Producers Organization (FPOs) and Section 8 firms to ascertain(i) the dairy processing and worth addition infrastructure,(ii) meat processing and worth addition infrastructure and(iii) Animal Feed Plant. Interest subvention is supplied @ 3% to all eligible entities. So far, Rs 150 Cr. venture mortgage has been sanctioned by Banks underneath AHIDF.Eligible entities can apply for mortgage on-line at https://ahidf.udyamimitra.in.
(2) Nationwide Artificial Insemination Programme – Phase II
Nationwide Artificial Insemination Programme for 20,000 bovines per district for 600 districts within the nation was just lately launched by the Government in September, 2019 which is without doubt one of the largest such programmes with 100% central help for enterprise breed enchancment. Under “Nationwide Artificial Insemination Programme” Phase I, 76 lakh bovines have been coated, 90 lakh AIs carried out and greater than 32 lakh farmers have been benefitted. The NAIP Phase-II has been initiated from 1st August 2020 in 604 districts (50,000 animals per district). So far, underneath NAIP Phase-II, 2.64 lakh AIs carried out and 1.73 lakh farmers have been benefited.
(3) Interest subvention on working capital loans for Dairy Sector
Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying has launched a brand new element “interest subvention on Working capital loans for Dairy sector” as one of many element underneath its scheme “Supporting Dairy Cooperatives and Farmer Producer organizations engaged in dairy activities” (SDC&FPO). Under the curiosity subvention element of SDCFPO scheme up to now Rs 100.85Cr has been authorised as curiosity subvention quantity towards eligible complete working capital mortgage quantity of Rs 8031.23 Cr for milk unions as on 16.10.2020.

(4) Kisan Credit card for Animal Husbandry & Dairy Farmers
A Special drive has been undertaken to supply concessional credit score to PM-KISAN beneficiaries by way of Kisan Credit Cards. Animal Husbandry & Dairying farmers have been included on this drive. This will allow such farmers to realize entry to institutional credit score at concessional rate of interest. 2.5 crore farmers can be coated and can profit from credit score move of about Rs 2 lakh crores. Till date 51.23 lakh purposes of Dairy farmers have been collected by Milk Unions and 41.40 lakh purposes forwarded to the Banks.