author(s)
Shailendra Kumar Rajak, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Arvind Kumar Singh and MS Kundu

abstract
Doubling the farmer’s income by 2022 is a very challenging task, because the land holding size of farmer is decreasing continuously and at the same time, human population increasing very rapidly, which necessitates the situation to look forward to the animal husbandry sector. The income of farmer’s can be doubled by adopting the recent technology in livestock sectors like increasing the coverage of artificial insemination, improving animal productivity through grading up and crossbreeding, betterment of health care services, feeds and fodders bank development, climate resilient housing and feeding practices and value addition of milk and meat products. Apart from this various schemes viz. ARYA, READY, National Livestock Mission, Rashtria Gokul Mission, Kisan credit cards, farmer’s federation, NGOs, and women SHG are also useful in doubling the farmer’s income. Animal husbandry department also plays an important role in the dissemination of technical knowledge about farming practices, protecting animals from the most economically important diseases like FMD, H.S, B.Q, PPR and anthrax and creating awareness among the farming community regarding benefit of diversified farming.