National Livestock Mission (NLM)

National Livestock Mission (NLM), launched in financial year 2014-15, seeks to ensure quantitative and qualitative improvement in livestock production systems and capacity building of all stakeholders. The scheme is being implemented as a sub scheme of White Revolution - Rashtriya Pashudhan Vikas Yojana since April 2019.

The mission is organised into the following four sub-missions -

• Sub-Mission on Livestock Development: The Sub-Mission on Livestock Development includes activities to address the concerns for overall development of livestock species including poultry, other than cattle and buffalo, with a holistic approach. Risk Management component of the sub–mission will, however, also cover cattle and buffalo along with other major and minor livestock.
• Sub-Mission on Pig Development in North-Eastern Region: The sub-mission will strive to forge synergies of research and development organizations through appropriate interventions, as may be required for holistic development of pigs in the North Eastern Region including genetic improvement, health cover and post-harvest operations.
• Sub-Mission on Feed and Fodder Development: The Sub-Mission is designed to address the problems of scarcity of animal feed and fodder resources, to give a push to the livestock sector making it a competitive enterprise for India, and also to harness its export potential. The sub-mission will especially focus on increasing both production and productivity of fodder and feed through adoption of improved and appropriate technologies best suited to specific agro –climatic region in both arable and non–arable areas.
• Sub-Mission on Skill Development, Technology Transfer and Extension:The sub-mission will provide a platform to develop, adopt or adapt the technologies including frontline field demonstrations in collaboration with farmers, researchers and extension workers, etc. wherever it is not possible to achieve this through existing arrangements.