The Uttarakhand government has initiated “drastic measures” to boost farmers’ income by helping them to “rejuvenate” the fast dwindling dairy sector under a centrally sponsored project that had been launched from Uttarakhand, reports HT.
“We have initiated a multiplicity of interventions to rejuvenate the dairy sector so that the milk yield in the state goes up. The step would give a boost to farmers’ income and consumers would also be benefited in the process,” said R Meenkshi Sundaram, cooperatives, dairy and animal husbandry secretary.
“The objective of the project is to augment the farmers’ income so that the distress migration from the hills could be checked,” he said.
Sundaram said initiatives to rejuvenate the dairy sector were being taken under the ?410 crore M-TRAC (Mission for Transformation of Rural and Agricultural sector through Cooperatives).
