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Project Approach

Small and marginal For facilitating To serve small A set of 10 Climate resilient
farmers from project sustainable farmers, 10 cattle trainings are cattle ponds are
districts having livestock sheds each carried out on constructed for
landholding of 1-2 ha production in heat harbouring 10 pre-insemination stray cattle's to
and having 5-15 dairy stress condition, cattle are and post- reduce over
animals are chosen as anoestrus constructed at 3 insemination of extraction of
beneciaries of the management (2 chosen KVKs and cattle across 100 pasture land and
project. To ensure animals per house) remaining 7 at villages of project livestock/agricultur
eective gender and articial other Government districts. e based waste
participation, 30% of insemination Institutions. methane gas
the overall beneciaries exercise are utilization.
under the project are carried out.
women.

Outputs/Outcomes
Weather linked insurance
The indigenous The problem of cessation of normal product would be designed
dairy ovarian activity during summer for compensating loss in
milk yield based on the
animals reduced to minimum through the correlation between Thermal
practice of “Fixed-Time
like the Artificial Insemination” Heat Index (THI) of the
district and variation in milk
Murrah/Niliravi buffalo method resulting into the higher productivity with the
and Sahiwal cow's milk yield
gene pool improved by technical
artificial insemination
of germplasm from support
cross breed variety from the insurance company
of cattle

Innovative A disease forecasting system
300 climate providing a correlation between

resilient sheds (100 each in 3 disease occurrence and changes
in climate, vegetation cover etc.
districts) at the farmer’s level and developed in line with National
10-15 demonstrative sheds at Animal Diseases Referral Expert
institution level constructed System
(NADRES)

Interventions towards climate resilient livestock
production system in Punjab

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Climate Change Interventions of
NABARD – A Glimpse