E-GOPALA Portal

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E-GOPALA Portal- Relevance for UPSC Exam

Recently, the Department of agriculture and farmers welfare has developed an android and web-based application called “e- GOAPLA” Portal.

About: E-GOPALA Portal is a digital platform to help dairy farmers for managing their animals. E-GOPALA Portal was launched in 2020 for direct use by farmers.
E-GOPALA Portal is available in 12 languages viz. Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Odiya, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Assamese and English.

E-GOPALA Portal helps farmers to formulate balanced ration for dairy animals using locally available feed ingredients.
- This helps in optimizing the feed costs while increasing productivity and reproductive efficacy.
E-GOPALA Portal helps farmers in the management of nearly 29 common ailments of dairy animals e.g. mastitis, indigestion, diarrhoea etc. using Ethno-Veterinary Medicine (EVM).
- This section also contains videos in various languages on disease management protocols through Ethno- Veterinary Medicine.
E-GOPALA Portal provides digital platform for buying/selling of dairy animals, information on source of quality semen doses available for various breeds of cattle and buffaloes and contact details for availability of IVF embryos and sex-sorted semen.
E-GOPALA Portal also provides real-time information on breeding, nutrition and health of their animals from INAPH.
E-GOPALA Portal provides timely alerts on due date for vaccination, pregnancy diagnosis, calving etc. as well as information about various schemes on dairying and animal husbandry.
Farmers can also directly connect to call centre for their queries on animal health, nutrition and breeding through E-GOPALA.

The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) provides financial assistance to the recognized Gaushalas/ AWOs/ NGOs/ SPCAs and Local bodies for-
- Establishment of new animal Shelter House,
- Maintenance of animal shelters, animals medicines,
- Purchase of medical equipment and conducting of veterinary camps etc. and
- Rescued cattle maintenance grant for maintenance of the animals rescued from illegal transportation/ slaughter-houses and Provision of Ambulance Services for animals in distress.
Under Rashtriya Gokul Mission, the Government of India has been promoting the use of sex-sorted semen for the production of female calves with 90% accuracy.
- The extensive use of sex-sorted semen will limit the stray cattle population in the country.