Lucknow, Feb. 4 -- The Uttar Pradesh government will open livestock medicine centres in all blocks of the state to strengthen animal healthcare services, announced animal husbandry and dairy development minister Dharampal Singh on Monday. The centres will also provide ethnomedicine-based treatment alongside modern medicines. Addressing a press conference here, Singh said veterinary and para-veterinary services would be introduced on a public-private partnership (PPP) model for the treatment of cattle and other animals. Pathology laboratories and polyclinic centres would also be set up for animal disease diagnosis. To support farmers, the minister said, the government had rolled out a new fodder policy under which fodder seeds would be distributed free of cost to encourage fodder cultivation. Singh claimed sufficient vaccines and medicines were being ensured to control infectious diseases, while breed improvement programmes were being prioritised....