Minister for Agriculture Pocharam Srinivas Reddy said that the government would establish a milk chilling station with an estimated cost of Rs.6 crore at Someswar village near Banswada.
Addressing a gathering of women beneficiaries at Beerkur mandal headquarters on Friday, he said that one lakh milch animals would be distributed to promote dairy industry across the State. At least 1,000 cattle would be given in each Assembly constituency in coming months, he added.
Earlier, the Minister handed over 100 milch animals costing Rs.50 lakh to women self-help groups and 1,054 LPG connections under the Deepam Scheme to individual families.
He said the government permitted the beneficiaries to purchase locally available buffaloes as the buffalos brought from Haryana, Punjab and Tamil Nadu were dying while being unable to adjust to the local environment.
Two buffaloes would be given free of cost to those women groups which would repay loan taken from Stree Nidhi, promptly. Milk needs to be sold only to the Vijaya Dairy. Milk purchasing centres would be set up at every village. For Kuruma community people sheep units costing Rs.1 lakh would be sanctioned on 60 per cent subsidy, he said.
Mr. Srinivas Reddy said that the government would give compensation to those farmers who lost cotton, paddy and maize crop. That apart, Rs.10,000 assistance would also be granted to them. The list of drought-hit mandals would be declared within a short time. Seed would be supplied on subsidy to encourage the ID crops in the current rabi season, he said.
