ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ACTIVITIES IN KALAHANDI

Objectives to achieve the Goal

  1. To make Animal Resources Development an engine of growth of the rural economy of Odisha, providing income and sustainable livelihood opportunities to the people.
  2. To provide efficient veterinary services at the door step of the farmers.
  3. To make backyard poultry a popular and viable subsidiary farming activity in rural area
  4. To enhance availability of feed and fodder for economic dairy farming
  5. To achieve self sufficiency/ surplus in milk, meat and egg production
  6. To enhance per capita availability of milk, eggs, and meat including poultry meat
  7. To make dairying a viable livelihood option for small, marginal farmers and landless persons by strengthening all forward and backward linkages
  8. To enable the farmers to improve the productivity of animals like sheep, goat , pig and poultry

DIFFERENT PLANS OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DEVELOPMENT

  1. Mobile Veterinary unit: Mobile Veterinary Unit was launched by Sj. Naveen Patnaik, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Odisha at Jeypore on 10th July,2011. In each block the Mobile Veterinary Unit moves to in accessible pockets 20 days in a month.
  2. Promotion of dairy entrepreneurship (PDE/DEDS) : In this scheme the beneficiary can get 2 to 10 hybrid cows/ Buffalo with subsidies ( 25-33 %) loan sanctioned from banks .
  3. Calf Rearing Programme (CRP) :Supply foods for Hybrid female calf ( 4 to 24 month) in subsidies amount rate.
  4. Livestock Insurance under risk management of Naional Livestock mission : This is a animal insurance progamme in subsidies rate.
  5. NMPS : in this scheme to provide shelter for improved verity Goat and some food supplementary etc. Besides this goat cluster and goat scout are included.
  6. Commercial Agri Enterprise : In this scheme facilitated to layer hen forms and goat farms , seep farms etc. with a maximum amount Rs. 50 00 000 subsidy.

  7. Backyard Poultry : Subsidies rate 28 days old 45 numbers of Banajat chick are provided to poor below poverty line farmers.

    Animal

    Various Units in District
    NameValue
    Veterinary Dispensary18
    Veterinary Hospital3
    Livestock Aid Centre139
    Artificial Insemination facilities121
    Mobile Vety. Unit13
    Goat Breeding Farm01
    Clinical Investigation Laboratory01
    Gomitra Centre30
    BAIF Centre10
    J K Trust Centre01
    List of diseases that are preventable by vaccination
    BacterialViral
    HS 
    BQ 
    Anthrax 
    Enterotoxaemia    		FMD 
    PPR 
    Goat pox 
    RD

Activities

Animal health camps
  1. Preventive vaccination against contagious diseases are generally carried out after routine deworming.
  2. The camp has helped in significant growth of body weight thereby benefitted numbers of poor farmers  
     
Awareness camps
  1. Information about common diseases affecting livestock, their prevention and control
  2. Precautionary/preparatory measures during natural calamities viz: heat wave, flood etc.
  3. Feeding balanced feed & fodder (semi-intensive method) .
  4. Protect their feed & fodder much ahead of onset of monsoon.