Dairy units would be set up in 100 select villages in Kurnool district with a target to augment milk production by 1.50 lakh litres a day, District Collector Ch. Vijaya Mohan said on Saturday.
Dairying and allied activities would be given a fillip with a Central government grant of Rs. 50 crore to the district, the Collector told reporters here. Tripartite agreements would be entered into between DWCRA women groups, milk purchasers and bankers.
Under the pact, bankers would grant loans for infrastructure development, purchase of cattle and pick-up vans, he said.
Productivity clusters
A total of 25,000 SHG women were identified and they would be given 30,000 milch cattle to achieve the additional target of Rs. 1.50 lakh litres a day, Mr. Vijaya Mohan said.
The present milk production was three lakh litres a day. The units would be set up in Halaharvi, Aspari and Alur mandals to provide training and livelihood creation for women SHGs, he said.
Mandal samakhyas would be allotted one acre land for constructing sheds, he added.
Around 22 productivity clusters were identified for creating livelihood to women in Holagunda, Halaharvi, Aspari and Alur mandals in the district and 11 were grounded in the first phase, the Collector said. Livelihood would be created for about 5,000 women through a jeans cluster, pickles, bangles, school uniforms, school bags and luggage bags, milk khova, paper plates, bread and biscuit making, photo frames, candle making and handloom silk sarees clusters. A total of 779 women transacted business worth Rs. 89.32 lakh through the activities.
Plans to augment milk production from the existing 3 lakh litres a day to 4.5 lakh litres
