In June 2020, the Union cabinet approved the setting up of Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) worth Rs. ______ crore.

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SSC MTS 2020 (Held On : 26 Oct 2021 Shift 2 ) Official Paper 35

Answer 1

The correct answer is 15,000.

Key Points

Prime Minister announced for setting up of Rs.15000 crore Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan stimulus package.
The Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development (AHIDF) has been approved for incentivizing investments by individual entrepreneurs, private companies, MSME, Farmers Producers Organizations (FPOs) and Section 8 companies to establish
- (i) The dairy processing and value addition infrastructure,
- (ii) Meat processing and value addition infrastructure and
- (iii) Animal Feed Plant.

Additional Information

The main goal of AHIDF:
- To help to increase milk and meat processing capacity and product diversification thereby providing greater access for unorganized rural milk and meat producers to the organized milk and meat market.
- To make available increased price realization for the producer.
- To make available quality milk and meat products for the domestic consumer.
- To fulfil the objective of protein-enriched quality food requirements of the growing population of the country and prevent malnutrition in one of the highest malnourished children populations in the world.
- Develop entrepreneurship and generate employment.
- To promote exports and increase the export contribution in the milk and meat sector.
- To make available quality concentrated animals feed to the cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and poultry to provide balanced ration at affordable prices.