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Kolkata , Aug. 3

THE West Bengal Animal Resources Department today signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bharatiya Agro-Industries Foundation (BAIF) of Pune and JRD Tata Trust for promoting goat keepers and helping them to organise themselves into groups.

This is to help them undertake improved animal husbandry practices and to promote improved breeding through use of superior breeding bucks, among other things.

The project was initiated through Tata International with a view to facilitate scientific breeding techniques and improve the quality of goat leather. The overall objective of the project is to demonstrate improved goat husbandry practices and improve the productivity of local goats, and thereby enhance the income of goat keepers.

Augmentation of goat production will also help bridge the gap between the demand and availability of mutton in the State.

The MoU was signed at the state administrative headquarters of Writers' Buildings here today in the presence of the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

The MoU also seeks to promote the use of realistic valuation parameters for better price realisation and to enhance the capacities of the community to liase with government, traders, banks and NGOs for availing services for the purpose of goat development.

A pilot project on goat development would be implemented in four blocks of Bankura and Burdwan districts. It has been estimated that 2,500 families would directly benefit from the project even as net family income has been estimated to go up by 60 per cent.

The JRD Tata Trust has contributed Rs 95 lakh for the project. BAIF will provide for the technology and monitoring of the inputs even as the animal resources department will provide medicines and seeds that are required to meet the goat keepers' needs.

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