Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan (LPPS), LPP's partner organization in India, has launched a project to promote camels as a source of income in Rajasthan's deserts.

The project will:

• Educate and raise awareness of traditional camel breeding communities about new marketing options
• Support camel breeders in innovating their production systems
• Establish linkages with research institutes
• Liaise with and lobby government agencies for an appropriate policy framework
  
• Catalyze private sector involvement and investment in manufacturing and marketing camel products
• Strengthen camel breeders' organisation to retain ownership of production processes
• Facilitate establishment of a common platform for all stakeholders in the camels.

LPPS has opened an office in Jaisalmer to manage this project. Contact:

Hanwant Singh Rathore
Reviving Rajasthan's Camel Husbandry Project
LPPS, Plot #760, Anchalwansi Colony, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
Tel. 02992-250652, mobile 09414818564
camelherds@yahoo.co.in, www.lpps.org

Reviving Rajasthan's Camel Husbandry is a project of Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, conducted in cooperation with LPP in the context of the LIFE Network and supported by the Ford Foundation.

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