Haryana

Jhajjar

Murra

Dhankar

Solanki

Manohar Lal Khattar

During upcomingSwarna Jayanti Cattle Fair, a unique exhibition will be organised from October 27 to 29 indistrict of Haryana.Apart from usual trade of cattle, a catwalk of indigenous andbreed cows will be organised during the fair. The fair is expecting footfall of nearly, 5000 farmers and around 2500 cattle. Not just this, a whopping sum of rs 9 crore has been set aside as winning prize for the owners of best cattle in the catwalk competition.-Haryana’s Animal Husbandry and Dairy Minister O Phad earlier said, “The fair would be organised keeping in view the four aspects of dairy industry: breed, technology, temperature and fodder. The objective I of the fair is to make Haryana the best state in milk production.”The cattle fair will be Governor Kaptan singhOctober 27 and Chief Ministerwould be the chief guest on the concluding day on October 29.Last week, Haryana government had announced a new concept to facilitate those people who live in high rises in urban areas but also want to rear cattle to produce milk. Under this ambitious project, about 50 to 100 acres of land would be earmarked in major towns in Haryana for cows and buffaloes."In these earmarked areas, there will be two types of dairies. One will be traditional, and in the second case, we will set up 'PGs for cattle’,” said Dhankar.