Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana formulated an Anti Tick camp for beneficiary dairy farmers under Farmer FIRST Project. Anti-Tick camp was held for dairy farmers of the operational area of ICAR funded ‘Farmer FIRST’ project of GADVASU under the guidance of Dr. P.S. Brar, Director of Extension Education and Nodal officer of Farmer FIRST Project and Dr. Y.S. Jadoun, Principal Investigator of the project. Team members of the project Dr. Rajesh Kasrija and Dr. Navkiran Kaur and Ph.D. scholars of the Department of organized the anti-tick camp in the adopted village Kalala under the project. In the camp total 77 beneficiary dairy farmers from the village participated and a total of 488 dairy animals were 
treated with medicine to control ticks. Dr. Rajesh kasrija delivered lecture on the anti-tick strategy that should be followed by farmers and made them aware about the various diseases caused by ticks and their management in the dairy animals. He further discussed and demonstrated the method of applying anti-tick medicine to the dairy farmers. He advised farmers that they should adopt good dairy healthcare management practices like deworming, vaccination, ecto-parasite control etc. in order to avoid problem of tick-born diseases at their dairy farms. He informed farmers that such anti-tick camps will also be organized in future on regular basis in order to make Kalala village as ‘Tick Free Village’ under Farmer FIRST Project.
