Panaji, December 11, : .Stray cattle are a pan-Indian problem and can be solved if cowdung becomes commercially viable, said Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam.
Rupala said that his Ministry was keenly observing an arrangement between a research organisation and a cattle shelter in Gujarat, which is examining the financial viability of the sale of value added cow dung.
“This is a pan India problem.We tried to get to the bottom of the issue and we realised how do animals become stray.Until a cow yields milk, until then people keep it.But when they become non productive, people let them loose,” Rupala told reporters at a press conference in Panaji.
We are trying out a new way to increase the value of cowdung.
The product then gets marketed to non-productive animals.Rupala stated that we are monitoring the Jalaram Gaushala, Gujarat with more than 10,000 animals, and have signed a scientific organization.
The Union Minister also said that the dung was being procured from the cattle shelter at the rate of Rs 3 per kg and was processed for value addition.
“If sale of dung at Rs 3 can become a broad success then we will replicate (the model) in other states along with state governments,” Rupala said.
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