Reproductive health-cum-deworming camp for cattle is scheduled to be held on April 4.
Veterinary doctors from Department of Animal Husbandry are gearing up to conduct such camps in more than four hundred villages across the district.
The programme is being organised to provide post-distribution care to cows, goats and sheep that were distributed under the free distribution of milch cows and goats scheme.
Hence, Collector M. Ravikumar appealed to the beneficiaries to utilise the programme here on Saturday.
Apart from the beneficiaries of the scheme, others who raise cattle could also benefit from the programme. Such camps were conducted with the objective of facilitating sustained milk production from milch cows and increasing the weight gain in goats provided under the scheme, he said.
The State government launched the free distribution of cattle scheme on September 15, 2011 in order to uplift the livelihood standards of poor families in the State.
Under this scheme, four goats had been distributed each to 4,88, 273 beneficiaries in 31 districts and 42, 608 milch cows to 42, 608 beneficiaries in 21 districts since the launch of the scheme.
In Tuticorin district, as many as 16,592 goats were given to 4, 148 beneficiaries and 700 milch cows to 700 beneficiaries in 2014-15, official sources said.
