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POLICY TO INCENTIVISE #DAIRY #FARMING

Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying has undertaken following policy interventions for incentivizing dairy farming

Livestock & Dairy farmers should avail benefits of these schemes, I am cataloguing all schemes in this thread
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Rashtriya Gokul Mission:
All components of Scheme will be implemented on 100% grant-in-aid basis except the components of:

i) accelerated breed improvement program under the component subsidy of Rs 5000/IVF pregnancy will be made available to participating farmers as GoI share;

ii) promoting sex sorted semen under the component subsidy upto 50% of the cost of sex sorted semen will be made available to farmers.

iii) establishment of breed multiplication farm under the component subsidy upto 50% of the capital cost upto 2.00 crore will be made available.

Dairy processing & Infrastructure Development Fund:
The Scheme envisages providing loan assistance to State Dairy Federations, District Milk Unions, Milk Producers Companies, Multi State Cooperatives and NDDB subsidiaries across the country who r termed as Eligible End Borrowers.

DIDF provides subsidized loan @6.5% to #milk coops for primarily replacing their old chilling & processing plants and addition of value added product plants. Out of Rs 10,881 crore of financial outlay for project components of DIDF, Rs 8,004 shall be loan from NABARD to NDDB/NCDC

Under the scheme Support to State Dairy Cooperative & Farmers Producers Organization (SDCFPO), one time support in the form of Interest subvention on working capital loans has been introduced in order to incentivize dairy cooperatives and farmers engaged in dairying.

Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund incentivizes investments by individual entrepreneurs, Pvt companies, MSME, FPOs & Sec 8 companies to establish:
~Dairy processing & value addition infrastructure
~Meat processing and value addition infrastructure
~Animal Feed Plant

KCC facility to Animal Husbandry & Fisheries farmers for their working capital requirement wherein farmers either individual or joint borrower, Joint Liability Groups or SHGs including tenant farmers having owned/rented/leased sheds are eligible for getting benefits under KCC !

National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD)
Focus-creating/strengthening of infra for quality milk testing equipment as well as primary chilling facilities for State Coops Dairy Federations/District Coop Milk Producers’ Union/SHG run private dairy/Milk Producer Companies/FPOs

Provides financial assistance from JICA, in U.P & Bihar initially, to create the necessary dairy infrastructure for the purpose of providing market linkages for the produce in villages & for strengthening of capacity building of stake-holding institutions from Vill to State level