Animal Health Summit- Relevance for UPSC Exam
Animal Health Summit: Animal Health Summit 2022 is being held promote animal welfare and health in the country, especially through greater use of Ayurveda. Animal Health Summit 2022 is part of UPSC Mains GS Paper 2 (Governance, Administration and Challenges- Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.)
Animal Health Summit 2022 in News
- Recently, Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying inaugurated First India Animal Health Summit 2022.
Animal Health Summit 2022 in News
- About: The first Animal Health Summit 2022 was held at NASC Complex, New Delhi with aim to discuss, deliberate and promote animal health and welfare in the country.
- Aim: The first Animal Health Summit 2022 is being organized for understanding the significance of animal health towards the broader objective of-
- The country’s food and nutrition security,
- Rural incomes and prosperity and
- Overall economic development.
- Organizing Body: ‘India Animal Health Summit 2022’ was organized by Indian Chamber of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) and the Agriculture Today Group.
- Key Events: The two-day Animal Health Summit 2022 event will host a plethora of panel discussions ranging from topics such as Animal Health policy initiatives to Business environment & investment opportunities in the Animal Health sector.
- The deliberations evolved will later be documented and presented to authorities.
- Significance: Animal health is a very major component of One Health and there is need to ensure even more respect for veterinarians in the community at large.
- The Animal Welfare Department is taking initiatives like the Animal Health Summit to address animal pandemic preparedness.
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Animal husbandry in India
- Livestock sector contributes 4% of GDP and 25% of total Agriculture GDP.
- According to livestock census 2019, livestock in India witnessed an increase of 4.6% as compared to the previous census.
- Livestock productivity has been identified as one of the seven sources of income growth by the Inter-Ministerial Committee under the government’s target of doubling farmers’ income by the year 2022.
Potential of livestock farming in India
- India has 56.7% of the world’s buffaloes, 12.5% cattle, 2.4% camel (10th in camel population in the world) and 3.1% poultry (2nd largest poultry market in the world).
- Livestock sector contributes 4.11% of GDP and 25.6% of total Agriculture GDP.
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