Tarun Shridhar
The author is Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
Articles By Tarun Shridhar
Exploring the next Milky Way to growth
Indian dairies should go in for industrial-scale production of traditional milk products for selling in both domestic and export markets
Harnessing the fruit of the sea
India’s Rs 30,000 crore-plus shrimp farming exports is a remarkable, not-so-known success story. The challenge is in sustaining it
Now, also an Aadhaar card for cattle and buffaloes
India is implementing the world’s biggest project of tagging every bovine animal that may yield huge productivity gains.
Livestock sector: A new ministry promises a new beginning
Animal husbandry was considered a subsidiary activity, which has changed with the Modi government now according it an independent status
Explained: Why healthy animals mean healthy humans, and how to meet that goal
As human populations expand, it results in greater contact with domestic and wild animals, providing more opportunities for diseases to pass from one to the other.
Explained: Why it is important to count India’s chickens (and cows)
The importance of a livestock census was first recognised in 1919, 47 years after human counting was started in 1872.
