Poultry Training concludes at GADVASU

Ludhiana-28-Dec, 2012



The Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana organized two weeks poultry training. Dr. Harish Kumar Verma HOD said that seventy participants including two ladies from different parts of the State participated in the training programme. Participants were peculiar collection of businessmen, representatives, graduates and unemployed youths. The complete capsule training programme on poultry was provided to the trainees on all aspects starting from selection of land, procurement of feeding, management of poultry birds, schedule of vaccination, handling of eggs, marketing of poultry birds including preparation of project report and loan facilities etc. Such large number of trainees registered for the course depict that more farmers are going to adopt diversification, in-livestock farming through adopting poultry farming. A field visit to a progressive farmer was also organized to know about the practical aspects on poultry farming. After undertaking this training programme, one can start his own venture. All participants appreciated the efforts of Directorate of Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Vety & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana for organizing this training programme. Dr. RS Sahota, Director of Extension Education was the chief guest at the concluding function and he said that poultry farming is an excellent field for employment as well as to meet the protein needs of the people. He also said that like other functional farmers' associations, poultry farmers can form an association with the help of University, which can be useful for the growth of poultry farming in the state. Dr.Verma, informed to trainees that department is organizing various publications in local language as well providing training on Dairy, Pig, Goat, value addition of the livestock produce.


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