• The Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has provided certain information in Parliament regarding the ongoing National Programme for Cattle and Buffalo Breeding.
• The scheme is subsumed under Rashtriya Gokul Mission since December 2014.

National Programme for Bovine Breeding and Dairy Development

• The NPBBDD has been formulated by merging four ongoing schemes of the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries in the dairy sector.
• It was launched in Feb 2014.
• This merger has been done to integrate milk production and dairying activities in a scientific and holistic manner to meet the increasing demand for milk in the country.

Components of the scheme

NPBBDD has the following three components.

• National Programme for Bovine Breeding (NPBB)
• National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD) and
• Rashtriya Gokul Mission.

Differences between all these schemes:

1) National Programme for Bovine Breeding

It aims-

• To arrange quality Artificial Insemination services at farmers’ doorstep
• To bring all breedable females under organized breeding through Artificial Insemination or natural service using germplasm of high genetic merits

2) National Programme for Dairy Development

It aims-

• To create and strengthen infrastructure for the production of quality milk including cold chain infrastructure linking the farmer to the consumer
• To strengthen dairy cooperative societies/Producers Companies at the village level
• To increase milk production by providing technical input services like cattle-feed, and mineral mixture etc.

3) Rashtriya Gokul Mission

It aims-

• To undertake breed improvement programme for indigenous cattle breeds so as to improve the genetic makeup and increase the stock.
• To enhance milk production and productivity of indigenous bovines.
• To upgrade non-descript cattle using elite indigenous breeds like Gir, Sahiwal, Rathi, Deoni, Tharparkar, Red Sindhi.

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