National Digital Livestock Mission:
The Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India, informed the Lok Sabha about the National Digital Livestock Mission (NDLM).
- It was launched by the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India for creating a digital database of livestock and related services across the country.
- Aims is to enhance livestock productivity and breed improvement, strengthen disease surveillance and control, enable traceability of livestock products and create a farmer-centric digital ecosystem for efficient service delivery.
- It has been implemented across all States in India.
- key objectives of the NDLM:
- Improving breeding outcomes suited to India’s diverse agro-climatic conditions.
- Enabling real-time disease monitoring and control, and establishing a robust traceability mechanism for livestock products.
- The mission also focuses on empowering farmers by providing easy access to information on government schemes and livestock-related services.
- The digital backbone of the mission is the ‘Bharat Pashudhan’ platform.
- Bharat Pashudhan’ platform includes mobile and web-based applications used by field workers to record livestock-related activities.
- Under this each animal is assigned a unique 12-digit bar-coded ear tag, which serves as its digital identity.
- Using this system, field workers capture data on animal registration, artificial insemination and breeding, ownership changes, vaccinations, disease reporting, milk recording, ration balancing and e-prescriptions.
