The Ministry of Department of Animal Husbandry is a department of

Government of Maharashtra The Government of Maharashtra is the state governing authority for the state of Maharashtra, India. It is a democratically elected government with 288 MLAs elected to the Vidhan Sabha for a five-year term. Maharashtra has a Maharashtra Legisla ...

to look after

animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. Husbandry has a long history, starti ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

. Department is headed by the cabinet level minister. Minister of State assists cabinet minister.

Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil is an Indian politician, and a 7 time MLA from Shirdi Vidhan Sabha Constituency in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. He is currently Minister of Revenue in the Government of Maharashtra and was the 1st Minister sworn ...

is current Minister for Husbandry.

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Animal husbandry in Maharashtra

Many

farmers A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer mi ...

in Maharashtra depend on

for their livelihood. In addition to supplying

milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digestion, digest solid food. Immune factors and immune ...

meat Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted, farmed, and scavenged animals for meat since prehistoric times. The establishment of settlements in the Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals such as chic ...

, eggs, wool, their castings (dung) and hides,

animal Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motilit ...

s, mainly bullocks, are the major source of power for both farmers and drayers. Thus, animal husbandry plays an important role in the rural economy. The national gross value of output from this sector was 8,123 billion Rupees in FY 2015–16.

Organizational structure

Department is further divided into following sub-departments for ease of administration. * Maharashtra Veterinary State Council, Nagpur * Maharashtra Livestock Development Board Akola * Sheep & Goat Development Corporation, Pune

Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University

Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University is an agriculture state university headquartered from

Nagpur Nagpur (pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, aːɡpuːɾ is the third largest city and the winter capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the 13th largest city in India by population and according to an Oxford's Economics report, Nag ...

, India. It was established under ''The Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University Act, 1998''. It was officially established on 3 December 2000 by carving seven colleges out of the other four state agriculture universities in Maharashtra.

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