TS tops in sheep distribution: Talasani

‘93,000 tonnes of meat production in State’

Telangana is ahead of other States in distribution of sheep and rise in sheep population, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Talasani Srinivas Yadav said on Saturday. At an orientation programme held here for district-level officers on the second phase of sheep distribution scheme and other activities of the Animal Husbandry Department, the Minister said that the department had secured a special recognition after formation of the State as Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had been encouraging community-based vocations, particularly sheep-rearing. As part of strengthening the rural economy, the State government had introduced the sheep distribution scheme and spent ₹5,000 crore on the first phase, which had become a big success with multi-fold growth of income for the shepherd community, he mentioned. The government had allocated ₹6,000 crore for the second phase of the scheme that was launched at Huzurabad on July 28.