CM Dr Manik Saha seeks financial assistance from Centre to make Tripura self-sufficiency in production of milk, egg, fish and meat

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Wednesday attended a high level task force meeting of the Ministry of Development of North East Region (DoNER) chaired by the Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia from Delhi.

During the meeting the Chief Minister demanded financial assistance from the Centre to make Tripura self sufficiency in production of egg, fish, milk and meat. The Chief Minister also emphasized on other potential areas of the state for development.

Dr Saha highlighted the steps taken by the state government to achieve self-sufficiency in milk production, increase egg production, increase meat production and fish farming in the state. He demanded in the meeting to provide financial assistance to the North Eastern Region Council for various projects aimed at making the state self-sufficient in milk, fish, egg and meat production within the next 5 years.

“To achieve self-sufficiency in milk production, Tripura has adopted Artificial Insemination (AI), both with conventional and sex-sorted semen. Sex-sorted semen refers to a technique used in AI where sperm cells are separated to increase the likelihood of producing female offspring (female-to-male ratio will be 90:10). In the last 3 years, Tripura has conducted 2.6 lakh doses of AI using SSS, producing nearly 50,000 female calves. Additionally, high-yielding cross-breed heifers have been distributed, nutritive calf growth meal has been supplied to farmers, and milk cooperatives under the Gomati Milk Union have been strengthened,” Dr said.

The Chief Minister has demanded the establishment of 8 dairy farms in each district with a capacity of 200 cows each, at a cost of Rs 80 crore, and a project worth Rs 7 crore for strengthening the Gomati Cooperative Milk Producers Union Ltd with the help of NDDB (National Dairy Development Board) by setting up bulk milk cooling stations/milk chilling vans at each subdivision, along with a large-scale heifer introduction program with the help of NDDB.