SME Times News Bureau | 11 Sep, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launched the ambitious National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP)
on Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura, among a slew of government
schemes for farmers.
With 100 per cent funding from the Centre of
Rs 12,652 crore for a period of five years till 2024, NADCP aims at
vaccinating over 500 Million livestock including cattle, buffalo, sheep,
goats and pigs against foot and mouth disease.
The programme
also aims at vaccinating 36 million female bovine calves annually in its
fight against Brucellosis disease. The programme has two components -
to control the diseases by 2025 and eradication by 2030.
Modi
also personally interacted with farmers, veterinary doctors and plastic
waste segregators. Taking his pledge to phase out single-use plastic he
not only launched a welfare scheme to segregate plastic from waste but
also interacted with a number of waste collectors.
He in fact sat
down with them to tell them the importance of segregating plastic from
waste so that it doesn't end up in the stomachs of bovines.
He
inspected a machine facility that will recycle waste. He also interacted
with veterinary doctors on how vaccines are administered to cows and
what precautions are taken.
This is part of the government's
effort to double farmers' income. Modi also interacted with select
farmers who have been beneficiaries of government schemes.
The
Prime Minister also launched nationwide workshops in Krishi Vigyan
Kendras in all 687 districts of the country with artificial insemination
of livestock as one of the goals.
