Panaji, June 04, 2018 … The Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services, Panaji will implement the 13th Round of Foot and Mouth Disease Control Programme (FMD-CP) from June 6, 2018. FMD-CP is a Government of India Scheme under Livestock Health and Disease Control (LH&DC).
In this 30 days programme, efforts will be made to vaccinate the cattle and buffalo population and sera samples will be collected from selected villages, pre and post vaccination, to ascertain the immune status of the herd.
The dairy farmers are requested to extend their co-operation to the teams/ staff of Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services to eradicate Foot and Mouth Disease which is highly contagious, and causes high economic losses in milk production, drought power, growth and reproduction.
