MP govt defers bull castration drive amid opposition
Hindustan TimesThe Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday deferred a drive to castrate 1.2 million bulls of the so-called nondescript variety after BJP member of Parliament from state capital Bhopal, Pragya Thakur, and leaders of the opposition Congress demanding that the move be scrapped, claiming, erroneously, that it could harm efforts to increase the population of indigenous varieties. Castration drive According to the state, at least 2.6 million bulls were castrated over the past three years in Madhya Pradesh. When farmers fail to realise the money of cow feed from milk production, they are compelled to abandon them,” said JN Kansotia, additional chief secretary animal husbandry department, MP. “.I objected to it and talked with the chief minister that it will finish the population of many Indian breeds and promote foreign breeds.” Thakur got support from an unlikely quarter, the opposition Congress.
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