Knowledge Up gradation Training concludes at GADVASU

Ludhiana, July-21, 2012

Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University(GADVASU), Ludhiana organized the seventh knowledge Upgradation Programme for Dairy Farmers from 16st to 20th July 2012. Dr HK Verma, HOD revealed that GADVASU to organizes series of such training programmes for farmers and veterinary officers of the country. These training programmes are sponsored by Indian Immunological Limited, Hyderabad. Sh K R Rohella, Comptroller, GADVASU Ludhiana was chief guest at this occasion. He said that through the adoption of scientific and recommended practices it is very easy to increase the milk productivity of the animals. We cannot afford to increase the population of animals, as country is already having large number of animals of world, but we can definitely improve the performance of our animals through University recommended advanced practices in dairy farming. On this occasion Mr CH. Srinivasa Sastry, Customer Relations Manager, Indian Immunologicals revealed that the company is trying its best to upgrade the scientific knowledge of the dairy farmers of the country and for that, the company has shortlisted the farmers and other technical officers from the country and they are being trained at GADVASU, Ludhiana. Thirty seven farmers of Andra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab State participated in this training programme in which, information regarding milch breeds of animals, balanced feeding of dairy animals, housing, vaccination, deworming, infertility problems, right time of insemination, , clean milk production, marketing of milk and milk products were provided to the farmers. Dr HK Verma, said that the Department is continuously organizing training programmes on all species of livestock (dairy, piggery, goat, poultry, rabbit and fish farming) and also tailor made training programmes as per demand. Further, Dr Verma told that due to many option in livestock farming, it is the best viable option for self employment for the unemployed youth. One can start with little inputs farming like goat; poultry to large input farming like dairy farming after getting basic training on these farming's from Veterinary varsity. Dr JS Hundal Coordinator of this training programme revealed that the participants were very progressive and enthusiastic to know more about the scientific knowledge about dairy farming. Almost all the participants had purchased the university literature. In the end, an evaluation of the course was done by a short test and two farmers were awarded Best Participant Award by Sh K R Rohella and Dr H K Verma. Such type of appreciation will bring healthy competition among the participants. All the participants who underwent this training were highly appreciative of the course structure, the state of art facility and the high quality of training imparted during the programme


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