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Pune , Dec. 20

AKZO Nobel's animal healthcare business, Intervet, has signed a memorandum of understanding to exclusively supply veterinary products and to set-up livestock disease diagnostic and healthcare centre for a special project in India to support rural families.

The partnership with Indian NGO, BAIF Development Research Foundation, involves Intervet India providing products to BAIF, which will make them available to small-scale farmers via their extensive network of dairy cattle breeding centres (CBC). A number of livestock disease diagnostic centres will also be established.

BAIF operates more than 1,200 CBCs in nine States, with each centre serving up to 12 villages and 1,500 families. The partnership will offer self-employed farmers in remote villages access to vital veterinary products at a fair price.

The project involves setting up of livestock disease diagnostic centres, in the areas where cattle breeding programme is already in progress and farmers own good quality lactating animals. BAIF and Intervet India (part of Intervet International) will also work together to improve disease management and productivity at rural level, as well as promoting livestock healthcare awareness.

The agreement with BAIF will begin with a three-month trial in Gujarat and Karnataka.

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