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Andhra Pradesh highlighted the increasing value of its dairy assemblage connected the eve of National Milk Day, with the Animal Husbandry Department outlining large initiatives aimed astatine improving cattle health, boosting beverage production, and strengthening agrarian livelihoods.
Animal Husbandry Director T. Damodar Naidu, connected Tuesday, said the State was delivering doorstep veterinary services done Rythu Seva Kendras portion implementing fodder information measures, provender improvement programmes, familial betterment of high-yielding breeds, infertility attraction camps, sex-sorted semen distribution, livestock insurance, and mobile veterinary clinics. These interventions were helping farmers physique healthier herds and execute higher productivity, helium added.
Mr. Damodar Naidu emphasised that dairy farming has historically played a captious relation successful agrarian beingness and is the largest income generator successful India’s agriculture sector, contributing astir 5 per cent to the nationalist system and straight supporting implicit 80 cardinal farmers. India accounts for 24.64 per cent of planetary beverage production, with nationalist output rising by 58 per cent implicit the past 9 years.
Andhra Pradesh ranks seventh successful the state with 13.946 cardinal tonnes of yearly beverage production, supporting astir 2.5 cardinal dairy farmers. The State aims to treble the existent ₹713.9 billion worth of its dairy assemblage by 2033. Per capita beverage depletion stands astatine 719 grams per day, importantly supra the nationalist average, helium added.
