B. National Livestock Mission (NLM):

The project is designed mainly for entrepreneurship development and technology infusion and the sub components are given below:
SubComponents :

1)Poultry Venture Capital Fund (PVCF-EDEG):

  • To encourage entrepreneurship in various poultry activities and provide capacity building for employment opportunities
  • To improve production of poultry products and productivity of processing units through technology upgradation and also encourage introduction of innovative technology.
  • To encourage rearing of other poultry species like quails, ducks, and turkeys etc. which have good potential.

2) Integrated Development of Small Ruminants and Rabbits (IDSRR)

  • Development of Sheep for Wool and Mutton.
  • Development of Goat for Meat and Milk
  • Assistance for Establishment of Goat Farms in Government Sector, NGO and Private
  • Assistance for Establishment of Rabbit Breeding Farms for Wool. V
  • Assistance for Training in Sheep, Goat and Rabbit Production

3) Pig Development (PD):

  • Encourage commercial rearing of pigs by adopting scientific methods and creation of infrastructure
  • Production and supply of improved germ plasm
  • Organizing stakeholders to popularize scientific practices
  • Create supply chain for pork industry.
  • Encourage value addition for better income.

4) Salvaging of Male Buffalo Calves (SMBC)

  • To enhance survival rate,
  • Increase availability of buffalo meat for export and domestic markets,
  • Enlarge raw material base for leather industry
  • Improve availability of by-products such as meat-cum-bone meal, tallow, hides, bio-fertilizer, brushes, combs and buttons, etc.,
  • Improve India‟s foreign exchange earning through export of buffalo meat and leather products,
  • Create avenues of economic gain from genetic material which otherwise go waste by linking livestock farmers and meat / leather industry,
  • Enhance employment opportunities in rural areas.

General Guidelines:

  • NABARD is the implementing agency for the Capital subsidy scheme under DEDS and NLM.
  • NABARD has developed a portal for online submission of subsidy applications, their scrutiny, sanction and for release of subsidy.
  • The subsidy will be sanctioned and released on first come first serve basis and the PCARDBs should submit the claims online through the respective R.Os for uploading the same through the Ensure Portal of NABARD.
  • The eligible claim are processed , forwarded to H.O and uploaded to NABARD through the Ensure Portal .
  • The ceiling on subsidy in general is at the rate of 25% depending on category of beneficiaries and location of the project and is back ended with a lock in period of 3 years.
  • The claims are to be preferred to Head Office for onward transmission to NABARD immediately after sanction of loan as subsidy claims are honored on a first come first serve basis.