{"id":27585,"date":"2024-10-27T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T06:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27585"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:18:08","slug":"21st-livestock-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/21st-livestock-census\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Livestock Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About 21st Livestock Census:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Livestock Census is conducted every <strong>five years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The census carries out a headcount of the number of <strong>domesticated animals<\/strong>, poultry, and stray animals in the country.<\/li>\n<li>The census takes into account information about the species, breed, age, sex, and ownership status of the animals in question.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background:<\/strong> Since 1919, a total of 20 livestock censuses have been carried out so far, with the last being conducted in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>The enumeration process for the 21st census will take place between October 2024 to February 2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus of 21st Livestock Census<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, information on <strong>sixteen animal species<\/strong> will be collected in the 21st census. These include: cattle, buffalo, mithun, yak, sheep, goat, pig, camel, horse, ponies, mule, donkey, dog, rabbit, and elephant.<\/li>\n<li>In total, the census will capture information on <strong>219 indigenous breeds<\/strong> of these sixteen species recognised by ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR).<\/li>\n<li>Besides these, the census will also carry out a <strong>headcount of poultry birds<\/strong> such as fowl, chicken, duck, turkey, geese, quail, ostrich, and emu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The census this time <strong>will be fully digitised<\/strong>, like the last one in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>This will include \u201conline data collection <strong>through a mobile application<\/strong>, monitoring at various levels through a digital dashboard, capturing the latitude and longitude of data collection location, and generation of livestock census report through software.<\/li>\n<li>The 21st census will <strong>capture several new data points<\/strong>. These include:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Data on pastoral animals, pastoralists:<\/strong> The census will, for the first time, collect data on the contribution of pastoralists to the livestock sector, their socio-economic status, and livestock holding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More details, granular information:<\/strong> The census will find out the <strong>proportion of households<\/strong> whose major <strong>income comes from the livestock sector<\/strong>. It will also contain data on the gender of stray cattle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)?<\/h3>\n<p>ICAR is the apex body for coordinating, guiding, and managing research and education in agriculture in the entire country under the aegis of DARES, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-economics\/livestock-census-21st-9640278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is the livestock census? Why is it conducted?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21st Livestock Census will capture information on 219 indigenous breeds of these sixteen species recognised by ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}