On 6th July, 2022, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying inaugurated India Animal Health Summit 2022 in New Delhi.
Its India’s first-ever Animal health Summit organized by the Indian Chamber of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) and the Agriculture Today Group.
Objective
To understand the significance of animal health towards the broader objective of the country's food and nutrition security, rural incomes and prosperity and overall economic development.
Impacts/Significance
Livestock plays an important indirect role that is fundamental to supporting food security by increasing incomes and hence contributing to poverty reduction.
Livestock may be used as collateral to obtain credit, be sold to obtain income or may be consumed directly in times of crisis.
Livestock can dampen the impact of negative household-level economic shocks such as unemployment, injury or illness to productive members.
Livestock also provide energy and fertilizer for soil and have a controlling effect on diseases in farming systems, thereby contributing to overall farm productivity and thus to food security.
