: Mumbai/ New Delhi, August 2, 2023

 

As per the National Cooperative Database (NCD) of Ministry of Cooperation, the total number of functional dairy cooperative societies is 11,219 (NCD accessed on 27.07.2023). The district-wise milk production in the State of Maharashtra during last five years is as follows:

 

 

Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR)/ Department of Agriculture Research and Education (DARE) has informed that at present, there is no plan to establish /open new dairy science/ dairy technical colleges in the country, particularly in Maharashtra.

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying is implementing Rashtriya Gokul Mission in all district of the country for development and conservation of indigenous breeds, genetic upgradation of bovine population and enhancement of milk production and productivity of bovines since 2014. Following major steps have been undertaken for the development and conservation of indigenous breeds under RGM:

  i           Nationwide AI porogramme for extension of Artificial Insemination coverage

ii          Progeny testing and pedigree selection for production of high genetic merit bulls of indigenous breeds.

iii         Establishment of Breed Multiplication Farms preferably of indigenous breeds

iv         Promotion of In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) technology for faster genetic upgradation of indigenous breeds

v          Implementation of genomic selection using genomic chip.

  vi         Sex sorted semen production for indigenous breeds

vii        Funds have been released to the States for establishment of 16 Gokul and 2 National Kamdhenu Breeding Centres.

 

This was stated by Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Shri Parshottam Rupala in reply to an unstarred question raised by Shri Rajan Vichare, at Lok Sabha on Tuesday (August 1, 2023).

 

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