Relevance: Prelims: Science
Why in news?
- The Government of India has unveiled a programme to research on ‘indigenous’ cows.
About:
- The initiative is called SUTRA PIC or Scientific Utilisation Through Research Augmentation-Prime Products from Indigenous Cows.
- Scientific research will be carried out milk products derived from Indian indigenous cows.
It has five themes:
• Uniqueness of Indigenous Cows,
- Prime-products from Indigenous Cows for Medicine and Health,
- Prime-products from Indigenous Cows for Agricultural Applications,
- Prime-products from Indigenous Cows for Food and Nutrition and
- Prime-products from indigenous cows-based utility items.