As part of AazadiKaAmritMahostav, Union Cabinet Minister for Fisheries, Animal husbandry and Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala will officially launch the Nationwide AHDF KCC Campaign for 2023-24 through virtual mode on 03rd May 2023 at 9:30 AM and interacted with beneficiaries of AHDF-KCC connected through CSC and State Animal Husbandry Department. This step will further help in extending KCC facility to all small landless farmers engaged in animal husbandry and fisheries activities.

In order to expand the benefit of Kisan Credit Card to all eligible animal husbandry, dairy and fishery farmers in the country, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, in association with the Department of Fisheries (DOF) and the Department of Financial Services (DFS), is organizing a “Nationwide AHDF KCC Campaign” from 1^st May 2023 to 31^st March, 2024. The circular conveying the detailed guidelines for organizing this campaign has been issued to States on 13.03.2023. The necessary instructions to banks as well as State Government have also been issued by D/o Financial Services.

Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying in association with Department of Financial Services are organizing various campaign since June 2020 for providing Kisan Credit Card facility to all eligible Animal Husbandry and Fishery Farmers.  As a result, more than 27 lakh fresh KCC were sanction to Animal Husbandry and Fishery Farmers thereby provided organizational credit facility to them to meet their working capital requirement. The last Nation-wide AHDF KCC Campaign has been held during 15.11.2021 to 15.03.2023. During this Campaign, District Level KCC Camps were organized in every week by KCC Coordination Committee coordinated by Lead District Manager (LDM) for on-the-spot scrutiny of applications sourced by the officials of State Animal Husbandry and Fisheries department from the farmers.

Around 1 lakh farmers joined the awareness program virtually from Common Service Centers.

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SS/RKM