Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Agency executives	Giriraj Singh, Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries; Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Minister of State; Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Minister of State; Venkata Rama Chandra Purushottam Basava, Secretary of Animal Husbandry, Cooperatives, Dairy, Agriculture, Horticulture, Education, Planning;
Website	Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

The Department of Animal husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) is an Indian government department. It is a subsidiary department of the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries which was formed as a new Indian ministry in 2019. The DAHD or the erstwhile Department of Animal husbandry, Fishiries and Dairying was formed in 1991 by merging together into a separate department, of two divisions of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, namely animal husbandry and dairy development.In 1997 the fishiries division of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation and a part of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries was transferred to it. In February 2019 the Department of Fisheries was carved out from the Department of Animal husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and it has been functioning as Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying since then.

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