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programme and will be worked through key villages instead of 

 establishing a largo number of government farms. 



There will be a government bull breeding farm for each division, 

 depending on the breed it is proposed to propagate most in the division. 

 Thus it will be posssible to have a separate farm for bulls required 

 for draught purposes, for bulls required for milk and for buffalo bulls. 



The bulls produced at the divisional farm will be given out 

 to selected or key villages and entrusted to darindas. The male 

 offspring of the bulls from key villages will be supplied, when they 

 are of age, to other villages in the vicinity. Thus stud bulls will be 

 maintained in all villages and the whole of the village stock will be 



graded up in the course of years. The organisation so 



set up will maintain a supply of better and still better bulls from 

 generation to generation (Scheme 18.1). 



This work will have to be supplemented by legislation to secure 

 the castration or removal of all other bulls. 



Where this system of work is not feasible, cooperative cattle 

 breeding societies will be set up (Scheme 18.2). 



Artificial insemination will be introduced wherever practic- 

 able ; this will reduce the number of bulls that will have to be main- 

 tained (Scheme 18.3). 



Action will be taken on similar lines for the breeding of better 

 sheep for improving the wood produced, for breeding goats, for the 

 breeding of poultry and the production of eggs and for breeding 

 other forms of livestock (e.g. horses, mules, donkeys, camels, pigs etc.) 



28. Dairying. The present production of milk in the province 

 is only 1.5 million tons a year. This comes on an average to l Ibs 

 a day per cow and 2 Ibs per day for a buffalo or double these amounts 

 if only animals in milk are considered. Milk production will be 

 increased with the better feeding and breeding of the cattle, including 

 the supply of tested bulls. But further action is called for in order 

 to increase production to 2 million tons in five years. 



Accordingly stops will be taken to secure tho increased produc- 

 tion of green fodder in villages (Scheme 19.1). At tho same time it 

 will be necessary to assure to the producers a remunerative market 

 for their milk. Care will however be taken to ensure that villagers 

 aro left with some milk for their own consumption. Further action 

 for the propor maintenance of their animals e.g. shortening the dry 

 period, will be taken by the cattle owners themselves, 





