1. GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL ANIMAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

2. HUGE LIVESTOCK POPULATION
About million Livestock which is 7th in India
About million Poultry population which is 4th in India
HABITAT OF SOME UNIQUE LIVESTOCK:
Black Bengal Goats, Garole & Bonpala Sheep, Ghungroo Pig

3. One of the pillars of the State’s rural economy is animal husbandry
One of the pillars of the State’s rural economy is animal husbandry. It contributes nearly % of its agricultural SDP.
The Gross value of output at current price is Rs. 31,347 Crore.
About 86.5% animals are in the hand of marginal, small and semi-medium farmers with operational holdings less than 4 hectare and they depend on agricultural residues for feeding of animal.
About 83 million Livestock & Poultry population which is 5th in India.
Total bovine population of the state is about million. Out of which 75 % is non-descript indigenous cattle having average daily milk production Lt.
The state ranked 2nd in meat production , 4th in egg and 12th in milk production. But even so, there is a demand-supply gap.

4. APPLICABLE FOR THE STATE i,e, 180 Gm/HEAD/DAY .
MILK PRODUCTION
20 % increase in Milk production during the period of 7 years
Present production of milk only 83 % of the internal requirement of the
State.
**INTERNAL REQUIREMENT IS BASED ON THE NORMS FELT
APPLICABLE FOR THE STATE i,e, 180 Gm/HEAD/DAY .

5. EGG PRODUCTION 20 % increase in Egg production in last 7 years
Backyard poultry sector contributes 55% and commercial sector contributes
around 45%.
Present production of Egg only 77% of the internal requirement of the State.
20 % increase in Egg production in last 7 years
PROJECTED TARGET
**INTERNAL REQUIREMENT IS BASED ON THE NORMS FELT
APPLICABLE FOR THE STATE i,e, 100 Nos./CAPITA .

6. MEAT PRODUCTION
Poultry meat is the highest contributor of total meat production, where the
annual growth rate is 18%. State is self sufficient in Chicken meat .
Present production of Meat is only 73 % of the internal requirement of the
State.
PROJECTED TARGET
**INTERNAL REQUIREMENT IS BASED ON THE NORMS FELT
APPLICABLE FOR THE STATE i,e, 30 GM/HEAD/DAY .

7. SCHEMES OF POULTRY SECTOR

8. POULTRY SECTOR
State requires about 270 lakh eggs per day, while produces
about lakh eggs per day and about lakh eggs on an
average per day have to be brought from other States.
A Special Scheme formulated to mitigate the gap between demand & supply of
eggs in the State through –
1. Backyard Poultry (Chicken/ Duck) Farming through distribution of
Chick/duckling to the individual beneficiaries.
Beneficiary Selection :
Individual Application or selected by Gram Panchayat/ Panchayat Samity.
BDO/ Savapati will send list to the District Magistrate.
DDARD & PO of the district will arrange for distribution of chicks/ ducklings
4 (four) weeks old 10 (ten) numbers of chicks/ ducklings will be supplied
During : Distributed – lakh 2

9. POULTRY SECTOR Sl. No. Name of the District
Ducklings / Chicks distribution programme
No. of Beneficiaries benefited
No. of Ducklings / Chicks distributed
Target No. of Beneficiaries
Target of Ducklings / Chicks distribution 1
Purba Bardhaman
42520
425200
54830
548300 2
Paschim Bardhaman
14745
147450
18710
187100 3
Howrah
31203
312030
32760
327600 4
Hooghly
32570
325700
42120
421200 5
Jhargram
20148
201480 6
Murshidabad
50308
503080
60850
608500 7
Nadia
31790
317900
39780
397800 8
N 24 Parganas
41768
417680
51480
514800 9
Paschim Medinipur
38150
381500
50140
501400 10
Purulia
40878
408780
46800
468000 11
S 24 Parganas
61214
612140
67860
678600
TOTAL
4,05,294
40,52,940
4,84,040
48,40,400

10. POULTRY SECTOR
2. Poultry/Duck Farming by SHG (Convergence with MGNREGS) :
Unit Size: 100 to 250
should have land of their own
construction of sheds under MGNREGA
4 (four) weeks old chicks/ ducklings will be supplied free of cost.
During : among 707 nos. SHGs 1.61 Lakh Ducklings/ Chicks distributed.
Target : 5600 SHGs (Total State)
Sl. No.
NAME OF THE DISTRICT
TARGET NUMBER OF SHGs
Chicks
Duckling
Total 1
Nadia
500 30
530 2
Murshidabad 3
South 24 Parganas
250 50
300 4
Paschim Medinipur
350
100
450 5
Jhargram
150
200 6
Purulia 7
Purba Burdwan 8
Paschim Bardhaman 9
Howrah 10
Hooghly 11
North 24 Parganas
240
290
T O T A L
2990
380
3370

11. POULTRY SECTOR Entrepreneurs :
3. Commercial Hybrid Layer (Chicken) / Duck farm by Private
Entrepreneurs :
Unit Size: Layer Chicken - 20,000 to 1,00,000; Duck – 5,000
land required : 2 to 3 acres / 20,000 capacity
approx. unit cost : Rs – lakh / 20,000 capacity

12. POULTRY SECTOR Capital Grant / Subsidy :
West Bengal Incentive Scheme, 2017 for Commercial Layer Poultry Farm
and Poultry Breeder Farm (WBIS 2017 for CLP & PBFs) for Production of
Additional 80 lakhs to 1 Crore Eggs per day.
Capital Grant / Subsidy :
@ Rs. 8,00,000 per unit of Commercial layer / Poultry
breeder birds subject to maximum of Rs. 80,00,000.00
Interest subsidy on term loan :
Micro and Small farm:
40 % of total interest paid on term loan for 5 years subject
to maximum loan amount of 75% of the project cost.
Medium farm:
25% of total interest paid on term loan for 5 years subject to
maximum loan amount of 75% of the approved project cost.
Power Subsidy
Micro and Small farm :
Rs per Khw for 5 subject to maximum Rs. 5 lakh per year.
Medium farm :
Re. 1 per Khw for 5 years subject to max. Rs. 10 lakh per year.

13. POULTRY SECTOR Waiver of Electricity Duty
75% for 5 years subject to maximum Rs. 2 lakh per year.
Subsidy on Stamp Duty and Registration Fee:
50% reimbursement of stamp duty and registration fee for
purchasing land for setting up of the approved project.
48 Poultry Entrepreneurs establishing their projects of Rs crore project cost for additional 18 lakh egg per day.

14. GOAT DISTRIBUTION PROGRAMME

15. GOATERY SCHEME – INDIVIDUAL BENEFICIARIES
Distributed 1.86 Lakh goats amongst rural farmers in last six years.
During : Distributed – among beneficiaries
Target for : 1,00,000 goats among beneficiaries
Components:
5 Goats (4 Female + 1 Male) at 5-6 months age
Insurance and tagging
De-wormer, Mineral & Vitamin mixture, Vaccination
Orientation training of beneficiaries

16. GOATERY SCHEME – Individual Beneficiaries
Sl. No.
Name of the District
Goat distribution programme
No. of Beneficiaries benefited
No. of Goats distributed
Target No. of Beneficiaries
Target of Ducklings / Chicks distribution 1
Purba Bardhaman
1000
5000
1400
7000 2
Paschim Bardhaman
600
3000
786
3930 3
Howrah
350
1750
614
3070 4
Hooghly
550
2750
1006
5030 5
Jhargram
500
2500
810
4050 6
Murshidabad
840
4200
1420
7100 7
Nadia 8
N 24 Parganas 9
Paschim Medinipur
1020
5100 10
Purulia
890
4450
1186
5930 11
S 24 Parganas
1017
5085
1736
8680
TOTAL
7,547
37,735
11,978
59,890

17. GOATERY SCHEME – Convergence with MGNREGA
Components:
5 Goats (4 Female + 1 Male) at 5-6 months age
Insurance and tagging
De-wormer, Mineral & Vitamin mixture, Vaccination
Orientation training of beneficiaries
construction of sheds under MGNREGA
Target : 2000 Units SN
Items
Unit
Total Costs (Rs. In Lakh)
ARD Share (Rs. In Lakh)
MGNREGS Share (Rs. In Lakh) 1
Goat Shelter
40106 2
Cost of Animals including transport cost 5
11000 3
Insurance & Tagging charges
650 4
Feed Cost
800
De-wormer, Mineral & vitamin mixture, Vaccination Charge
300 6
Orientation training , booklet &monitoring etc.
250
Total Cost
53106
13000

18. GOATERY SCHEME – Buy Back Policy
Implemented by : West Bengal Livestock Dev. Corporation Ltd. (WBLDC)
Started in Hooghly District with 30 beneficiaries
WBLDC will provide :
11 Goats (10 Female + 1 Male)
Insurance and tagging
Feed for four months, De-wormer, Mineral & Vitamin mixture, Vaccination
Orientation training of beneficiaries
WBLDC will buy back all male goats at a price fixed between beneficiary
and WBLDC for the first time.
From second time, all male goats will be procured at market price
THIS SCHEME MAY BE PROPAGATED IN OTHER DISTRICTS WITH SHG MEMBERS

19. PIGERY SCHEME – INDIVIDUAL BENEFICIARIES
During : Distributed – 3996 among 1332 beneficiaries
Components:
3 Pig (2Female + 1 Male)
Insurance and tagging
De-wormer, Mineral & Vitamin mixture, Vaccination
Orientation training of beneficiaries

20. PIGERY SCHEME – INDIVIDUAL BENEFICIARIESSN
Name of District
Nos. of Beneficiaries Benefited
No of Pigs distributed
Target Nos. of Beneficiaries
Target no of Pigs distribution 1
Paschim Bardhaman 25 75 30 90 2
Purba Bardhaman
225 80
240 3
Hooghly 4
Howrah 20 60 5
Jhargram 8 24 6
Paschim Medinipur 55
165 7
Murshidabad 35
105
Nadia 40
120 9
North 24-Pgs 65
195 10
Purulia 85
255
270 11
South 24-Pgs
TOTAL
380
1140
438
1314

21. HEIFER REARING SCHEME– INDIVIDUAL BENEFICIARIES
During : Distributed – 1000 among 1000 beneficiaries
Components: SN
Components
Amount (in Rs) 1.
Cost of 1 heifer(Cross bred Jersey/ Upgraded Sahiwal or Gir, aged 12 months and above) including transportation
16,000/- 2.
Cost of partial feeding (Concentrate)
4,500/- 3.
Strengthening of existing cattle shed
4,000/- 4.
Cost of medicine, vaccines, insurance, etc.
1,750/- 5.
Training of farmer (1 day)[Conveyance-Rs.60.00, Tiffin & Tea- Rs , Pen & Booklet- Rs ]
150/- 6.
Miscellaneous expenses including Monitoring & Evaluation
600/-
Total unit cost:
27,000/-

22. HEIFER REARING SCHEME– INDIVIDUAL BENEFICIARIES
SL. NO.
DISTRICT
DISTRIBUTED DURING
TARGET FOR 1
Murshidabad 76
271 2
Nadia 50
190 3
North 24 Pgs 65
235 4
South 24 Pgs 90
298 5
Howrah 40
145 6
Hooghly 60
192 7
Paschim Medinipur
220 8
Jhargram 30 9
Purulia
212 10
Bardhaman Purba 75
247 11
Bardhaman Paschim 25
TOTAL
631
2190

23. SELF EMPLOYMENT SCHEMES
About 6000 private Artificial Insemination Workers
are working under this Department to provide
Artificial Insemination service to Cattle & Buffalo
at Farmers’ doorstep
About 5700 members of women SHGs are working
as PRANIMITRA to provide Vaccination & De-wormer
Incentive to Pranimitra & A.I. Workers:
To motivate and augment income generation of the
self employed persons, a incentive scheme is introduced
@ Rs per month with an increment of
monthly 10% after each 3 (Three) years.

24. TRAINING & SKILL DEVELOPMENT
Trained about lakh farmers for better animal husbandry
practices in last seven years
Started one year Certificate Course of ‘Livestock Development Assistant
(PRANIRAKSHAK)’ with a yearly target to train 420 youths.
Started a ‘Six months Certificate Course on Artificial
Insemination (PRANI SEBEE)’ under the ambit of the ‘Utkarsh
Bangla’ in 66 Vocational Training Centres with a yearly target
4000
Started Two years Veterinary Pharmacy course having yearly training
capacity of 30.

25. THANK YOU