Cattle fairs were brought to a halt in Rajasthan on Saturday to check the spread of lumpy skin disease among the bovines.
A dedicated care centre for animals affected by the disease has been set up at Hingonia gaushala near Jaipur. The contagious skin disease has so far killed around 9,130 cattle in the State.
Union Minister of Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala, who arrived here on Saturday to take stock of the situation, reviewed the measures being implemented. Mr. Rupala was informed that over 1.9 lakh bovine animals had been infected so far and that cattle-rearers had suffered heavy losses. Over 1.56 lakh of the infected animals were treated and 63,542 of them have fully recovered, according to the Animal Husbandry Department.
