By Salim Miya, Bijuwar, Mar. 15: The Agriculture and Livestock Development Office, Pyuthan has started a door-to-door service campaign for the treatment of diseased animals.

The team of veterinarians is reaching the doorstep of farmers for the treatment of the infertility diseased animals and animals suffering from other diseases.

Head of The Agriculture and Livestock Development Office, Pyuthan Uttam Acharya said that a door-to-door program has been started to treat cows and buffaloes of commercial farmers in Pyuthan Municipality and Swargadwari Municipality as per the Lumbini provincial government's program.

According to Acharya the program will be run in three phases. More than five hundred cows and buffaloes will be treated on the first phase. A total of five veterans are stationed for the campaign.

Veterinarian Hari Narayan Tharu said that the aim of the program is to increase the reproductive health of cattle by treating infertility of cows and buffaloes, worms and mineral deficiency.

The office provides free medicines after the treatment.

Farmer Kula Raj Neupane of Bagdula said that the veterinarians had come to the cowshed for the treatment of his ill cow.

According to the office, 13,461 metric tons of milk is produced in the district. Another 7,254 metric tons of milk is still insufficient for the district.