Maharashtra’s non-milking cows will soon have a new destination where farmers can send them, and the State government will bear the entire cost of transporting, feeding and treating them until they start yielding again.

Maharashtra’s Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries does not want them left dying and has a solution for farmers who cannot afford to care for non-lactating cows.

“The government will take care of cows of those farmers who cannot afford them when they don’t produce milk. Bring them to us, we will feed them, care for them and once the lactation begins, they can take cows back to their farm,” said the Minister, Mahadev Jankar, to The Hindu. The scheme will start working within the next two months.....................Read more

Source: The Hindu