KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
J&K’s Animal and Sheep Husbandry Minister Abdul Ghani Kohli on Monday said that Jammu region is producing 21.7crore table eggs and around 400 lakh kg of poultry meat annually. Despite all this production, the minister said J&K still requires to import poultry products worth Rs 735 crore annually.
Kohli was inaugurating J&K’s first poultry village at Rani-Badetar in Kalakote (Rajouri).
His ministry has decided to establish a poultry village in each constituency of the state to boost local production, the minister said while distributing one thousand chicks of Van-Raja and RIR breed among 50 BPL families.
Kohli said the scheme of creating poultry villages will play an important role in ensuring food security besides generating employment opportunities in rural areas. He hoped the people of the villages will optimally utilize this scheme to further boost their business thus raising their socio-economic standards. He exhorted upon the officers to explore possibilities of running hatcheries in other parts of district on Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
Reiterating the government’s commitment of making the rural areas of the state self sustainable, the Minister said that government has launched many developmental schemes for uplifting the rural sector and these schemes have started yielding tangible results. He asked the people to come forward and avail the benefit of these schemes.
Highlighting the government’s initiatives of developing the state to new dimensions, the Minister said that state has witnessed tremendous progress at all levels during the tenure of present dispensation. The main aim of the coalition government is to ensure the people a transparent, accountable and more responsive administration with focus on extending enhanced basic facilities.
