The Punjab government will organise camps to train youths on dairy farming, fisheries and piggery in a bid to open up avenues for self-employment, state Animal Husbandry Minister Gulzar Singh Ranike said today.
Animal husbandry contributes nearly 13 per cent of the state's GDP and there is scope for expansion, the minister said, urging youths to adopt subsidiary occupations for self-employment.
Addressing a meeting of the State Advisory Committee of the Animal Husbandry Department here, Ranike said the training camps would be organised mostly in the rural areas.
He asked senior officials to personally monitor the functioning of 100 goat units, set up recently at a cost of Rs 85 lakh.
To prevent foot-and-mouth disease of animals, the minister asked officials to initiate a campaign, an official spokesperson said.
