The State government will implement the scheme to promote the use of sex-sorted semen for producing female calves in all districts, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Minister J. Chinchurani has said. Inaugurating Padavu 2024, a State-level dairy farmers’ meeting at St. Thomas Forane Church parish hall at Anakkara, Idukki, on Monday, Ms. Chinchurani said that presently, the technology was used in Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam districts. “The government has allotted three such units for Idukki for which ₹17 crore has been sanctioned,” said Ms. Chinchurani.
“The government’s interventions in the dairy sector have helped transform Kerala into a dairy farmer-friendly State,” she said. “The department will implement a project named Ksheeralayam in the plantation sector to increase the income of plantation workers and improve their financial stability. Under the scheme, 10 cows will be reared by 10 people in a community cattle shed in tea estate layams (cluster homes). As part of the project, talks have been initiated with Kannan Devan Hills Plantations (KDHP) company at Munnar in Idukki,” said Ms. Chinchurani.
