Officers attend a coaching workshop for the twenty first Nationwide Livestock Census 2024 in Belagavi, in Karnataka, on August 29, 2024.
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The twenty first Nationwide Livestock Census 2024 will probably be performed from September 1 to December 31. On August 29, a workshop was held in Belagavi to coach officers and personnel tasked with the census.
Zilla Panchayat Chief Government Officer Rahul Shindhe directed officers to make sure that counting strategies are scientific and the data are created and maintained in a clear method.
“That is the primary time the census is being performed utilizing a cell software. However then, we must always be certain that there are not any technical or human errors within the course of,” he mentioned.
Enumerators ought to go to all the homes within the district and get full info. The information of farmers, class of farmers, age of cattle, ought to be collected and recorded, together with the main points of girls concerned in cattle rearing. “All care ought to be taken to see that there are not any loopholes,” he mentioned.
“Until now, census information was entered in books. However for the primary time, the census will probably be finished via smartphones. An unique cell app known as ‘twenty first Livestock Census’ has been developed by the union Animal Husbandry Division. Enumerators ought to be taught to make use of the app with out errors,” Mr Shindhe mentioned.
“Earlier 200 columns needed to be crammed within the e-book. This time, info might be entered shortly via the app. The app is designed to work even in locations with out cell networks,” he mentioned.
The information ought to embrace use of vaccines and medicines for livestock.
“The Animal Husbandry Division has been making ready for this large survey programme for the previous 4 months. Already, a complete of eight grasp trainers within the district have obtained coaching within the first section in August,” Deputy Director Rajiv Koler mentioned.
Grasp Trainers Anand Patil and Virupaksha Addanagi addressed the officers.
Livestock census has been occurring since 1919. There have been 20 censuses within the final 100 years. This would be the twenty first Livestock Census.
Its objective is to organize the subsequent plan of the governments primarily based on the census. The information will probably be used for formulating insurance policies and programmes for farmers and the dairy sector.
Officers will embrace information from goshalas (shelter for stray cows) too.
Information will probably be obtained on cattle, ox, buffalo, cow, goat, sheep, rooster, canine, horse, pig, duck and emu birds reared by livestock farmers. Data on stray cattle and canine can be included. Information on elephants, and cattle in temples will probably be collected. Anyplace that has greater than 10 cattle, 1,000 chickens, and 50 goats will probably be thought-about as a farm.
The operation will probably be large. As many as 247 enumerators and 54 supervisors will probably be concerned in Belagavi district, which has 3,24,584 households in city areas and eight,35,657 households in rural areas.
