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Government of India
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
28-November-2014 16:40 IST
Development of Dairy Sector

FARMER-CONSUMER MARKETS FOR IMPROVING FARMERS’ SHARE IN THE CONSUMER PRICE

 

          Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries (DADF), Government of India, has been implementing following Dairy Development schemes with the aim to  increase productivity of milch animals thereby increasing milk production through scientific breeding and feeding as well as to provide milk producers with greater access to the organized milk market in the country:

 

Sr No

Name of the Scheme

12th Five Year Plan Outlay

i)

National Programme for Bovine Breeding and Dairy Development (NPBB&DD)

Rs. 1800 Crore

ii)

National Dairy Plan  Phase I( NDP I)

Rs. 1756 Crore

iii)

Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (DEDS)

Rs . 1400 Crore

 

 The Centrally Sponsored Scheme “Intensive Dairy Development Programme (IDDP)” has been discontinued from the financial year 2014-15.  The erstwhile IDDP scheme along with its objectives and targets has been subsumed under the restructured scheme “National Programme for Bovine Breeding and Dairy Development (NPBBDD)” from 2014-15 in the 12th Five Year Plan. However, the spill over project activities of ongoing projects approved under the IDDP scheme has been continued as per administrative approval of the projects and existing guidelines of the scheme.

           The objectives and targets set under the Scheme are monitored by the DADF through quarterly progress reports of projects sent by the implementing agencies and also reviewed by the Technical Monitoring Committee set up by the State Government, which also has a representative of DADF, for monitoring the projects approved for the State under the scheme.

 

            This information was given by the Minister of State for Agriculture Shri Mohanbhai Kundaria  in the Rajya Sabha today.

 

GG: SB:CP: dairy  (rajya) 28.11.2014