Comprehensive District Annual Plan 2011-12 Balasore District

Comprehensive District Annual Plan 2011-12 Balasore District
• Per capita milk, meat and egg availability crosses that of State figures.
• A transit dairy farm is set up to stabilize milk yield of cows and buffaloes bought from
out side and help farmers to select the animals. The farmers can also be given on-farm
training in dairy.
• Rearing of buffalo is encouraged, which are resistant to climatic stress and fetches
higher price for milk due to more fat and SNF content.
• Dairy Cooperative Societies are revitalized to act as effective channel for supply of feed,
medicine and other health care facilities and also provide market support to the
farmers.
• Formation of meat and egg production cooperative society.
• Hatchery is setup one in each block under management of NGOs/SHGs/Private
entrepreneurs. Central grower unit and satellite layer farming projects are required to
help small layer farmers.
• A poultry feed plant of 10 ton capacity per hour may be established.
• Promotion of backyard poultry on a large scale.
• Barren and wasteland under the jurisdiction of Gram Panchayats to be cover up by
suitable fodder crops. Assistance under Grass Land and Grass Reserve (GLGR)
programme of GoI to be availed for the purpose. Feeding of Azolla and Urea Treated
Paddy Straw is practiced by all cattle owners of the district.
• Establishment of one model Farming System in each Block in which under one unit
poultry, duckery, fishery, fruit crops can be cultivated successfully for higher income to
the farmers. Technical support may be provided by KVK of OUAT.
• Promoting goatery through SHGs, NGOs and Private entrepreneurs. Introduction of
Artificial Insemination in Goats.
• Mobile Veterinary Hospitals with helpline numbers is introduced in sample blocks of
the district on trial basis. Farmers to access the Mobile unit through telephone call and
avail the services on payment of cost.
• Provision for staff quarters, laboratories & training halls in each veterinary institutions
with boundary walls. Each field staff and doctors to be provided with conveyance
allowances.
Pisciculture
• The production of fresh water fishery, brackish water fishery and marine fishery is
increased to 60%, 40% and 90% of the production potentials, respectively. This requires
an increase in production level by almost 50%.
• Since a lot of low lying and water logged areas are there in the district, at least 200Ha
new water area under brackish water sector & 70 Ha under fresh water sector are to be
developed annually for the coming 5 years through different schemes.
• All active fishermen of BPL category are provided with low cost house, boat, and nets.
• All fishermen villages, fishery clusters are well-connected by road and are electrified.
• The unutilized recourses under brackish water sector are developed through BFDA.
(Brackish Water Fish Farmers Development Agency)
• Renovation of existing defunct tanks under private and Govt. ownership. These are to
be covered under different on going programs like MGNREGS/RKVY/SGSY water shed
development Mission/FFDA etc.
• Establishment of at least 12 private fish seed nurseries, one in each block.
• Aqua feed shops is established in each block headquarter to meet the requirement of
fish farmers.
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