Context:
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture recommends subsidies for farmers for stray cattle.
Key Highlights:
- The PSC under former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi recommends the provision of subsidies to farmers under conditions of keeping non-milching animals to manage stray cattle.
- Non-milching animals are animals that are not raised for milk production.
- It recommends the commission to increase the livestock insurance fund allocation and to stop the increase of stray cattle from the present existing livestock population of 193.46 million cattle and 109.85 million buffaloes.
