The State has stocks of fodder enough for supplying to 12 districts, where drought-like situation prevails, for the next four weeks, according to A. Manju, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Sericulture.
He told mediapersons here on Tuesday that the government has already distributed fodder seeds to farmers at an estimated cost of Rs. 20 crore. By the time the fodder stocks get over, new fodder would be ready as farmers have already sowed the seeds. Hence there would no scarcity during the summer.
The government was supplying fodder at subsidised rate of Rs. 3 per kg to farmers against the actual price of Rs. 6.
The Minister said that the government on Monday released Rs. 7 crore to recognised “goshalas” rearing and protecting cows in the State. In Dakshina Kannada, Rs. 83 lakh was released to seven of them.
The government will make efforts to reserve at least Rs. 50 crore in the supplementary Budget of 2016-17 for setting up a cattle feed manufacturing unit in Dakshina Kannada, he added.
