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| Govt to increase milk production in state | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 4: After the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) revived two dairies in the state, one in Srinagar and the other in Jammu, availability of milk and milk products in Jammu and Kashmir has improved remarkably during the last one decade.
In the plains of Jammu region, milk products would not be available in the four months summer season and even curd could be available in the market only for a couple of hours in the mornings.
On the whole milk production had not kept pace with the growing demand but the story has changed to a greater extent now.
Milk along with curd is available in abundance during all the seasons in the Jammu region except that the city of Jammu faces cheese scarcity between May and July months.
Official sources said that as a result of various steps taken by the Government in terms of improved animal husbandry technologies, increase in the number of veterinary centres, increase in the production of animal feed and rearing of quality milk cattle had given new dimensions to milk production in the two regions of Kashmir and Jammu.
Sources said that scientists of the two veterinary colleges in Kashmir and Jammu universities of agricultural sciences and technology have also contributed to the development of techniques required for increasing milk production.
The Kashmir Cooperative Milk and Marketing Federation had spent over a week in Gujarat where they had indepth interaction with those connected with the GCMMF and the Amul dairy experts over a year ago.
During this interaction the cattle rearers and milk producers had been taught the intricacies and benefits of improving milk production under the dairy system which too had contributed to the increase in milk production.
Officials said that despite increase in milk production the state continues to bank on heavy imports of milk and milk products from Punjab and Haryana.
In order to enable to state to achieve self-sufficiency in production of milk, cheese and butter the Government has taken in hand various measures. Since the livestock sector contributes about 11 per cent to the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), the Government cannot afford to ignore developing this sector.).
The developmental activities undertaken during 2010-11 include construction, up-gradation of veterinary centre buildings at block and tehsil levels, introduction of Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Schemes, Backyard Poultry Scheme, Mini-Sheep Farm Scheme and Integrated Development of Small Ruminants and Rabbits (IDSRR). A new scheme, namely, “National Animal Disease Reporting System” (NARDS) is also being launched.
This scheme is expected to help the cattle owners to get instant treatment to their ailing cattle and treat other problems relating to poor milk yield in their cattle.
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