Union Animal Husbandry Minister and senior BJP leader Giriraj Singh here on Sunday said the ‘mob-lynching’ was a political word coined by pseudosecular people.
“This lynching is a political word, which has been coined lately. It belongs to the pseudoseculars. I don’t want to talk about it. Keep it aside,’ Mr Singh said while talking to mediapersons here.
The Minister claimed that efforts were on to ensure that no stray cattle could be seen on the roadside by next year.
He said that there were three main challenges with regard to cattle management. “The first one was about breed improvement of the domestic cattle, second was to make sustainable those who were in the cow-sheds and third one was to develop such an entrepreneurship model with regard to the stray ones so that none of these could be seen on the streets.
Mr Singh said that when the model of making commercial use of dung and urine, succeed, no one would let one’s cattle roam stray.
Making such infertile and unproductive cattle self-sustainable was the solution and the government was working on it. Self sustenance was the answer in this case and not the government aids. A project in this regard was on in an institute of the ministry situated in Haryana, he said.
He, however, accepted that there was no data with the government with regard to the numbers of stray cattle.
Answering to a query about illegal slaughtering, Mr Singh said that the law and police were there to deal strictly with such elements and put them behind bars.
Earlier, addressing a press conference, Mr Singh said that the department led by him, has been created for the first time.
“Agriclutural sector contributes to six per cent of the GDP and exports to the tune of Rs 75,000 crore. The measures being taken to increase productivity would aid in doubling the farmer’s income to a great deal,” he said.
The Minister stressed on the need for breed improvement as well as conservation of indigenous breeds. He said that for breed conservation through artificial insemination (AI), 11 labs across the country would start production of 20 lakh doses of sexed semen which would produce only she-calves. The minister also said that means like Embryo transfer and IVF etc would also be used for the same.
Mr Singh also stressed on the need for experiment in fodder and inclusion of things like Moringo (Sargwa in Gujarati and Sahjan in Hindi) in it to increase milk production and check the issue of infertility especially in the cross breed cattle.
He said that it was also a challenge to bring down the input cost of milk production. He also said that if any co-operative was not sharing its profits with the farmers selling milk to it, the government would take action against that.
Mr Singh said that a pilot project with regard to buy back of bio gas from cattle owners in a village in central Gujarat is being taken up and if it succeeds it would be implemented across the country.
He said that its success could become the game-changer with regard to the cooking gas fuel availability in India and reduce the dependency on LPG import to a big extent as there were 30 crore cattle in the country but we import around 70 per cent of the LPG needed by us.