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An important step in this direction was a workshop on "Mithun Husbandry" along with an exhibition organised by the district administration; West Bengal Comprehensive Area Development Corporation under the Panchayats Department jointly with ICAR National Research Centre in Darjeeling on Tuesday. "As agricultural land is decreasing day by day, animal husbandry is becoming a lucrative alternative. Interested and eligible farmers will be imparted training at the National Research Centre in Nagaland and will be provided with all necessary logistic support for mithun husbandry by the state government and the research centre. "A model project would be a forest village involved in mithun husbandry involving the community and the woodland," added Mitra. A mobile app has also been developed for scientific rearing by the National Research Centre on mithun — one of its kind centres in the world..