Animal Husbandry Startup Grand Challenge
Context
- Second edition of ‘Animal Husbandry Startup Grand Challenge’ launched.
About
- The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, in partnership with Startup India, launched the second edition of ‘Animal Husbandry Startup Grand Challenge’.
- It aims to scout for innovative and commercially viable solutions to address six problems faced by the animal husbandry and dairy sector.
- The six problem areas are:
- cost-effective, long-term, and user-friendly alternatives for storage and supply of semen doses;
- development of cost-effective animal identification (RFID) and traceability technology;
- development of heat detection kits and
- pregnancy diagnosis kits for dairy animals;
- Development of low-cost cooling and milk preservation system and a data logger;
- improvement in existing milk supply chain from village collection centre to the dairy plant.
- A winner will be awarded with Rs 10 lakh and a runner-up with Rs 7 lakh cash for each of the six problem areas.