SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 19: Principal Secretary, Navin Kumar Choudhary, today held an extensive interaction with progressive dairy farmers and entrepreneurs of Valley at Directorate of Agriculture, Lal Mandi Srinagar.
The meeting was attended by Director Animal Husbandry, Director Industries, President FCIK, milk processing unit holders, dairy entrepreneurs, farmers, and other stakeholders.
Principal Secretary had a threadbare discussion on various issues pertaining to the achievement of the target of doubling the farmer’s income and other issues of the dairy sector.
Principal Secretary said that the government is providing handholding training for doubling of farmers income by way of establishing dairy units, milk processing facilities, augmenting chilling capacities, the establishment of cattle feed manufacturing plants, silage making units, hydroponics, providing subsidize cattle feed to farmers besides providing milking equipment to farmers.
Meanwhile, Navin advised the dairy entrepreneurs to increase the production of milk and milk products to cater to not only the local demand but also explore possibilities for reversing the trend of import from other states. He encouraged the dairy farm unitholders to take due care of the environment by availing various novel eco-friendly departmental initiatives viz establishment of vermicompost, gobar gas plants, cow dung drying, and other such interventions.