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Livestock master plan soon: Sushil Kumar Modi
- 19 Dec, 2018
- India
PATNA: Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi said on Monday the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has spent around Rs 1,400 crore in Bihar till date. SuMo said on the state government’s request, the BMGF is preparing Bihar livestock master plan.
“The livestock master plan will lead to 1.5 times rise in dairy production, 10 times in poultry production and double the fisheries output,” a statement released by SuMo on Monday stated.
SuMo, along with health minister Mangal Pandey, is on a 10-day visit to the US where they visited a number of MNCs and foundations, including Google and BMGF. They are expected to return on December 22.
“BMGF has done lots of work in the field of women and child health and financial empowerment of women over the last 10 years. The state government and the foundation will strive to achieve the desire targets by 2030,” SuMo said.
Deliberating on the works being done by the BMGF, the deputy CM said: “Around 6,400 women are working in eight farmer producer companies doing business in maize, potato and vegetable in 14 blocks of the state. These companies made a business of Rs24 crore between 2015 and 2017.”
Earlier on December 15, SuMo had said Stanford University was doing research work on maternal, child clinical care, nutrition and immunization among other issues, which reduced child and maternal mortality rates.
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Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/livestock-master-plan-soon-sumo/articleshow/67133273.cms
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