{"id":59723,"date":"2021-06-01T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T10:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/?p=59723"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T10:04:19","slug":"union-minister-for-fisheries-animal-husbandry-dairying-shri-giriraj-singh-chairs-a-virtual-program-on-the-occasion-of-world-milk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/union-minister-for-fisheries-animal-husbandry-dairying-shri-giriraj-singh-chairs-a-virtual-program-on-the-occasion-of-world-milk-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry &amp; Dairying, Shri Giriraj Singh chairs a virtual program on the occasion of World Milk Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-hi\">\u0915\u094d\u0937\u092e\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0947\u0902, \u092f\u0939 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u093e\u0937\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0909\u092a\u0932\u092c\u094d\u0927 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/en\/\">\u0915\u0943\u092a\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902\u0964<\/a><\/p><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MinistryNameSubhead text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<h5><span id=\"ltrSubtitle\">Minister announces the launch of a National Award, Gopal Ratna Award, for Dairy Sector<\/p>\n<p>Integration of e- Gopala app with UMANG platform also announced<\/p>\n<p>Milk production has increased at an average annual growth rate of 6.3% per year in the last 6 years \u2013\u00a0 Shri Giriraj Singh<\/p>\n<p>Dairy sector is the source of livelihood of more than 8 crore dairy farmers \u2013\u00a0 Shri Giriraj Singh<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\">Delhi 01 JUN 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry &amp; Dairying, Shri Giriraj Singh chaired a virtual program organised on the occasion of World Milk Day. Every year,the first day of June is observed as World Milk Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister announced the launch of the National Awards for the Cattle and Dairy sector, the Gopal Ratna Awards. The award has three categories &#8211; \u00a0i) Best Dairy farmer, ii) Best Artificial Insemination Technician (AIT) and Best Dairy Cooperative\/ Milk producer Company\/ FPO. He mentioned that eligible farmers\/dairy cooperative societies\/ AI technicians can apply for award online and portal for award will open from 15th July 2021. Winners for the award will be announced on 31st October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also announced integration of e Gopala App with UMANG platform so that 3.1 Crore users of Umang platform will get access to App. e-GOPALA app (Generation of wealth through Productive Livestock), a comprehensive breed improvement marketplace and information portal for direct use of farmers, had been launched by Hon\u2019ble PM on 10th September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Minister stated that India is a global leader amongst dairying nations and produced 198.4 million tonnes of milk during 2019-20. Value of output of milk is more than Rs 7.72 lakh crore during 2018-19 at current prices which is more than the value of output of wheat and paddy together.<\/p>\n<p>Minister also mentioned that Milk Production has grown at an average annual growth rate of 6.3% per year during last 6 years whereas world milk production is growing at the rate of 1.5% per year. Percapita availability of milk has increased from 307 grams per person per day in 2013-14 to 406 grams per person per day in 2019-2020 that is y 32.24%.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that our dairy sector provides livelihood support to 8 crore dairy farmers engaged in dairying mainly small &amp; marginal and landless labourers. The dairy cooperatives of the country have the singular distinction of providing seventy five percent of their sales, on the average, to the farmers. Over 2 crore dairy farmers organised into dairy cooperatives and there are 1.94 lakh Dairy Cooperative Societies collecting milk from milk potential villages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The virtual event was also addressed by Minister of State, Fisheries Animal Husbandry &amp; DairyingDr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan and Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi. The event was virtually attended by farmers, members of dairy federations, Dairy co-operatives, research scholars, administrators etc.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural programme was followed by Technical Session on \u201cRole of Breed Improvement Technologies in Genetic Up-gradation Programme\u201d, many eminent experts and Scientists participated in the session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0915\u094d\u0937\u092e\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0947\u0902, \u092f\u0939 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0947 \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u093e\u0937\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0909\u092a\u0932\u092c\u094d\u0927 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u0915\u0943\u092a\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0947\u0902\u0964 Minister announces the launch of a National Award, Gopal Ratna Award, for Dairy Sector Integration of e- Gopala app with UMANG platform also announced Milk production has increased at an average annual growth rate of 6.3% per year in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":59731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,122],"tags":[31164,31158,31162,31161,31157,31160,31163,31159],"class_list":{"0":"post-59723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-news","9":"tag-ait","10":"tag-animal-husbandry-dairying","11":"tag-e-gopala","12":"tag-gopal-ratna-award","13":"tag-ministry-of-fisheries","14":"tag-shri-giriraj-singh","15":"tag-umang","16":"tag-union-minister-for-fisheries"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}