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8. STRENGTHENING OF COMMUNICATION AND EXTENSION
NETWORKING AT DIVISION LEVEL IN PUNJAB (2017-18)

The objective of the project was to promote knowledge sharing among
the stakeholders and to disseminate information regarding
departmental activities through local media and in native language.
The departmental training buses were also use for the purposes. As
part of the project, 2954 farmer days/fields days, 836 school focus
programmes, 24 radio talks and 860 mobile training programmes
were conducted.

9. LIVESTOCK CENSUS PUNJAB REAL TIME DATA COLLECTION &
POPULATION ON 9211 SYSTEM (2017-18)
The credible real time data collection is imperative for a long term
result oriented approach. The Department therefore erected state of
art ICT based 9211 system for real time data collection. The data so
collected for the district is as under:

No. of Farmers 189558
Cattle 1222145
Buffalo 621127
Total Large 1843272
Animals
Sheep 471135
Goats 1115345
Total Small 1586480
Animals
Poultry 1208246
Camels 1687
Horses 744
Mules 93
Asses 16037
Ducks 14595
Ostrich 464
Pigeon 387103
Fancy Birds 189100

10. IMPROVING THE PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE OF LIVESTOCK
IN PUNJAB THROUGH MANIPULATION OF DIFFERENT MINERAL
AND FEED SUPPLEMENTS (2017-18)
For the purpose, 5 Livestock Sahulat Centers were established in the
district where improved feed supplements like Mineral Mixture, Urea
Molasses Block, and Wanda were made available to the farmers on
cost basis. Total number of 49147 bags of Wanda, 72240 packets of

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