Haryana launches schemes to boost dairy sector

Rohtak, June 18 (UNI) The Haryana government today launched an employment scheme for the rural youth and three other schemes to give boost to dairy farming in the state.

Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, while addressing a gathering of members of milk cooperative societies here, said these schemes included an insurance scheme for producer members, a White Card Scheme to give loans on easy terms to milk producers and another scheme for extension of insurance of livestock.

The scheme for employment to rural youth, he said, would enable them serve as a resource person on retention or commission basis. The scheme would be implemented in those villages where the dairy cooperative had not been functional.

Under this scheme, a person who would motivate collection of 201 ltrs of milk per day would get Rs 4,000 per month and increased collection of milk would get him more money in a proportionate manner.

In case of a female resource persons, the women motivating collection of milk through a women society would get additional ten paise per litre of milk.

Under the second scheme of insurance for the benefit of producer members, a committed member who had supplied milk continuously for three years in lean and flush season, would be insured for Rs one lakh for accidental death by paying merely Rs 10 as premium.

This scheme would be in addition to the one being implemented by the government to provide insurance cover to the public in general.

He said the third scheme, known as White Card Scheme, aimed at providing loans up to Rs one lakh to the milk producers from various banks for purchase of animals. The scheme would benefit those milk producers who had supplied milk to the dairy cooperatives consistently for three years.

The loan would be provided from selected banks on easy terms and without collateral security, he added.

As per the fourth scheme, the animal wealth would be provided insurance cover in all areas of the state where the women milk cooperative societies were operative. At present, the scheme was being implemented in only five districts of Bhiwani, Jind, Hisar, Rohtak and Jhajjar for which 75 per cent of the premium was being paid by the government and remaining 25 per cent by the beneficiaries.

The Chief Minister, who also laid the foundation stone of Rs 19 crore expansion project of a milk plant in Rohtak, said with the expansion of the plant, its capacity would be doubled to four lakh litres per day.

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