patna chief minister cm nitish kumar on monday asked the animal and fisheries resources department afrd officials to set up pashu vigyan kendras animal science centres in different parts of the state on the pattern of the centres krishi vigyan kendra kvk to ensure growth of livestock and increase in production of different animal producesthe cm said the animal science centres would not only take care of the health of livestock but also make necessary arrangements for improvement of breed of different domestic animals and protect the breed of desi cowsthe cm was addressing an afrd event after releasing a book containing bihar livestock master plan lmp for the next five years he said the lmp would help in achieving the targets given under the states agriculture road mapthe cm said his government started agricultural road map in 2008 currently we are implementing the third agriculture road map and the lmp is an important component of it i hope this lmp will not only support the implementation of agriculture road map but also help the sector in making contributions to poverty reduction schemes he saidnitish stressed the need to promote organic farming in the state by using dung and urine of different livestock we can get high quality of bio fertiliser and bio pesticides from dung and urine of cows he saidthe cm asked the vicechancellor of bihar animal science university rameshwar singh who was on the dais to open hospital for indoor treatment of livestockthe cm also inaugurated a series of schemes of comfed animal husbandry directorate fisheries directorate and dairy directorate he released small packs of sudha milk powder dairy whitener and tetra pak of apple drink all being manufactured by the biharsharifbased plant of the comfeds dairy the cm also inaugurated four firstclass animal hospitals through remote control these hospitals are located at chandrayan in saharsa district phulaut in madhepura and manjhauli and pasahi in patna district each hospital has been built at a cost of rs 5480 lakhdeputy cm sushil kumar modi afrd minister pashupati kumar paras adviser to cm anjani kumar singh revenue board chairman sunil kumar singh development commissioner subhash sharma and afrd secretary n vijayalakshmi were also present