Animal Husbandry Department budget 2025-26 Pashu Sandesh

Animal Husbandry Department budget 2025-26

Pashu Sandesh, 08 Feb 2025

The Union Budget tabled in the Lok Sabha for 2025-2026, proposed the highest-ever annual budgetary allocation of Rs. 4840.40 Crores allocated for FY 2025-26 for the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying. This overall allocation for the financial year 2025-26 has increased by 7% Increase over the last year's allocation. In the Union Budget 2025, the Government of India increased the Kisan Credit Card (KCC) lending limit from 3 lakh to 5 lakh, enhancing credit accessibility to KCC holders 42,45,193 dairy farmers.

S no	Expenditure Head	Budget in crore Rs
	Establishment Expenditure of the Centre
1	Secretariat	80.00
2	Animal Health Institute	100.00
3	Small Livestock Institute	50.00
4	Breed Improvement Institute	50.00
5	Centre of Excellence for Animal Husbandry	44.89
	Total-Establishment Expenditure of the Centre	324.89
	Central Sector Schemes/Projects
6	Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme	1980.00
7	Infrastructure Development Fund	460.00
8	Dairy Development	1000.00
9	Rashtriya Gokul Mission	0.01
	Total Central Sector Schemes/Projects	3,440.01
	Other Central Sector Expenditure
10	Animal Welfare Board	10.30
11	CCSEA	1.70
12	Veterinary Council of India	10.00
13	International Cooperation	3.50
	Total Other Central Sector Expenditure	25.50
	Centrally Sponsored Schemes
14	Livestock Census and Integrated Sample Survey	250.00
15	National Livestock Mission	800.00
	Total Centrally Sponsored Schemes	1,050.00
	Total	4,840.40

Secretariat: The provision is for expenditure of the Secretariat and network-based information system at headquarters. This also includes the provision of establishment expenses of PAO (DMS) New Delhi and PAO AHD&F Mumbai.
Animal Health Institute: Provision is for Animal Quarantine Services Stations and Chaudhary Charan Singh National Institute of Animal Health etc.
Small Livestock Institute: The provision is for the Central Poultry Development Organization, Regional Fodder Stations and Central Sheep Breeding Farm.
Breed Improvement Institute: The provision is for Central Cattle Breeding Farms, Central Herd Registration Scheme etc.
Centre of Excellence for Animal Husbandry: The provision is for Centre of Excellence for Animal Husbandry.
Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme: Livestock Health and Disease Control and National Animal Disease Control Programme for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Brucellosis have been merged into a single scheme which is renamed as Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme. Funds are kept for supplementing the activities of the State Govts. For sustainable livestock health by providing central assistance under various Immunization, Skill Development, and creation of Veterinary Infrastructure
Infrastructure Development Fund: Under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan stimulus package, Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) merged with Dairy Processing & Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF) for incentivizing investments by inpidual entrepreneurs, private companies, MSME, Farmers Producers Organizations (FPOs), Section 8 companies and Dairy Cooperatives to establish (i) dairy processing and value addition infrastructure, (ii) meat processing and value addition infrastructure (iii) Animal Feed Plant (iv) Breed improvement technology etc. The budget provision is also for supporting the working capital requirement of the State Cooperative Dairy Federation (erstwhile Support to State Co-operative Dairy Federations).
Dairy Development: The provision is for the release of funds to different Milk Unions/State Milk Federations for approved projects and for Dairying Through Cooperatives component - B of the Dairy Development Scheme which has been initiated in cooperation with Japan International Co-operative Agency (JICA) which will provide ODA loan assistance.
Rashtriya Gokul Mission: The allocation for the National Programme for Bovine Breeding, Indigenous Breeds and the new scheme of the National Mission on Bovine Productivity have been clubbed together under Rashtriya Gokul Mission. The scheme aims to conserve and develop Indigenous Breeds scientifically and holistically to increase bovine productivity.
Animal Welfare Board: The provision is for the Establishment Expenditure of the Animal Welfare Board.
Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CCSEA): The provision is for the establishment expenses of the office and implementation of the scheme. The office was established as per the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 (59 of 1960) and allocated to the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying. Earlier the provision was clubbed with the budget of NIAW.
Veterinary Council of India: The provision is for salary, other expenses and the construction of the Building of the Veterinary Council of India.
International Cooperation: The provision is kept for contributions to different International Bodies.

Development Programmes: The White Revolution scheme has been renamed as Development Programmes after revisiting and realigning various components of the White Revolution.

The components of DP are

i) Livestock Census and Integrated Sample Survey

ii) National Livestock Mission and the allocation includes provision for Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA).

Livestock Census and Integrated Sample Survey: The provision is for the scheme of Livestock Census in which preparatory works of the 20th Livestock Census 2017 have been initiated and for Integrated Sample Survey in which production of major livestock products namely, milk, eggs meat wool etc. are estimated on the basis of sample surveys conducted by all States and Union Territories.
National Livestock Mission: The provision is for the scheme with the objective of sustainable development of the livestock sector especially cattle, ruminants and other small livestock.