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CHALLENGES FACED • The livestock programmes faced challenges of new
disease outbreaks during the year. Lumpy Skin Disease

• India’s farming is highly dependent on the monsoons in cattle-a ected states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, along
with some areas of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and
and FY 22 saw the e ects of climate change, with
Punjab. The other outbreak was of African Swine Fever
ravaging floods in Assam and the North East, alongside
in pigs in the north-eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh,
scanty rainfall in the Eastern Gangetic paddy bowl
Nagaland, and Mizoram. The community su ered heavy
during the early Kharif season, followed by heavy rains
losses in both these outbreaks. Vaccination programmes
during the end of the monsoon season that resulted in
with Goat Pox Vaccine and vector control programmes,
flooding, thereby damaging crops and delaying Rabi
along with treatments both ethnoveterinary as well as
crop plantings. The record-breaking summer heat
allopathic medicines were used to minimise the losses in
a ected grain filling and production of wheat in the
the Lumpy Skin Disease outbreak. For African Swine
North Indian regions. The need of the hour is the
Fever, biosecurity measures were adopted and
adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices within
awareness campaigns were done in coordination with
the Trusts’ programmes to mitigate such challenges.
the Animal Husbandry Department of the government.

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