Webinar on issues facing animal husbandry sector

In spite of being a huge producer of milk and poultry products, the Indian animal husbandry sector faces problems these as low efficiency and higher costs, though bearing the recurrent impact of health conditions.

Thanks to massive cattle population, India is today No 1 milk producer at about 188 million tonnes recorded for 2018-19. But over 50 for every cent of this milk arrives from the unorganised sector, which has higher prevalence of malnutrition in the animal much less enhancement in breeds. This implies, India is nonetheless not in a position to tap entire opportunity of its out there cattle sources.

Dairy creation

As for every the Union Government’s National Motion Plan for Dairy, India’s milk creation is targeted to touch three hundred million tonnes by 2023-24, for which the milk creation demands to improve at a healthy 8.5 for every cent annually from the recent advancement of around 6.5 for every cent.

Also, India’s bovine population is viewed expanding at a sluggish rate of 1 for every cent.

There is a higher want for development of higher-yielding breeds.

Nevertheless, owing to really unorganised nature of the livestock sector, the govt-led nourishment programmes, breeding and generate enhancement initiatives have a constrained influence.

BusinessLine and Godrej Agrovet are jointly web hosting a webinar ‘What ails India’s Animal Husbandry Sector?’ on August 30 at 4 pm.

The seminar would dwell upon what demands to be completed to strengthen the creation and efficiency of the sector, though dealing with the problems confronted by its stakeholders.

The authorities who will share their thoughts on the subject matter are RS Sodhi, MD, GCMMF (Amul) Nadir Godrej, Chairman, Godrej Agrovet B Soundararajan, MD, Suguna Holding Pvt Ltd Ashish Modani, VP & Co-Head Company Ratings, ICRA, and Sandeep Kumar Singh, CEO, Animal Feed Enterprise & Godrej Maxximilk.

If you have not registered for this webinar by now, do so at https://bit.ly/GDJBLA2