The animal husbandry department is set to launch a massive programme to tag all indigenous variety of cattle in a bid to improve progeny and milk production
Sanjeeb Mukherjee | New Delhi
July 4, 2016 Last Updated at 07:28 IST
The government surely knows how to milk the Aadhaar card for ideas. The animal husbandry department is set to launch a massive programme to tag all indigenous variety of cattle in a bid to improve progeny and milk production. There are about 85 million milch cows — those that produce milk — in the country. They could all soon have their own Aadhaar-like identification cards. The ID cards will have all relevant information about the breed. This, in turn, will enable improved progeny and assist in augmenting milk yields. The government wants to double the country’s milk ...