Mountains. Grants will be distributed to encourage livestock farmers in the district to become self-reliant and professional. The Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Service Experts Centre has decided to provide Rs 80 lakh to encourage farmers in livestock development and milk production.

Acting Chief of the Centre and Livestock Development Officer Ram Krishna Subedi said the Centre was preparing to provide the grant amount for six different programmes. The grant amount will be provided to farmers, farms, companies, groups, committees and cooperatives as per the annual approved program for the fiscal year 2082÷83.

Subedi said that Rs 2 million will be distributed to farmers or farms rearing cows, sheep, goats, pigs, fish and chickens under the Greater Livestock Development Promotion Programme. To be eligible for the grant through a farmer group, committee or cooperative, one must be rearing at least 50 cows and producing at least 200 liters of milk daily.

The reservoir should be 250 square meters for sheep and goats, 50 breeder maui or 100 fattener pigs for pigs, at least 500 for rural chickens, 300 for ducks and 20 ropanis of land for fish farming and at least 1,000 square meters for rainbow trout.

The office will provide Rs 30 lakh for four installments of incentives on the basis of milk production. Under this subsidy, a maximum of Rs 5 per liter can be provided. The applicant should be a cooperative related to milk production, should be involved in the business of milk for at least two hundred liters per day and at least two hundred days annually.

The office is preparing to provide a maximum of 90 percent grant to two beneficiaries under the Kaligandaki Corridor-centered Livestock and Fisheries Production and Promotion Programme. In order to be eligible for this grant, a farmer group, committee or cooperatives should have at least 50 bees and buffaloes and produce at least 200 liters of milk daily, at least 250 breeders for sheep and goats, at least 50 breeder cows or 100 fatners for pigs.

The subsidy can be provided to those who have reared at least 500 chickens, 300 ducks or at least 20 ropanis of land for fish and 1,000 square meters of land for rainbow trout in rural areas. However, the Centre has put the condition that the local level falling in the Kaligandaki corridor should be eligible for this grant.

Similarly, under mechanization support programme in Farm and Livestock Business, farmers will be provided subsidy of Rs 700,000 with 25 percent cost share. Under the continuation of the interest subsidy program on agricultural loans, one and a half lakh rupees will be provided with a subsidy of five percent on interest for one time.

The Centre will invest Rs 300,000 for the construction and improvement of six shops in a 50 percent cost sharing for the construction and improvement of dairy shops, meat shops and slaughterhouses. Farms, groups, committees or cooperatives should have to operate a fish and dairy shop in at least 80 square feet area and have been operating a fish or dairy shop for the past one year to be eligible for this grant.