Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana trained farmers of the Una District of Himachal Pradesh in three day training programme on Scientific Dairy Farming, said Dr. H.K. Verma, Prof. cum- Head. At the concluding function of the training program organized for the 20 beneficiaries, Dr.Verma said that there was immense potential of improving income and employment in the rural areas of Hills through increased milk production besides meeting the demand of the quality fluid milk in the tourist state. Experts interacted with the farmers and dealt with their queries at the concluding function. Dr V B Joshi , Deputy Director Animal health and Breeding, Animal Husbandry Department informed that the training programme was sponsored one and were imparted training by the experts of GADVASU .Himachal Govt. in all have trained around 40 batches from GADVASU, which is an excellent centre of learning and they like to visit Ludhiana. Dr.Verma said “the trainees were imparted training in animal feeding, breeding, health care, and management of animals in hilly areas besides being shown the elite herd of cattle being maintained at the institute’s dairy farm and the progessive dairy farmers in the field that would help them in making their dairy farms scientifically.” . Dr. Kulbir Singh Sandhu, Director Extension Education, GADVASU, Ludhiana told that university is organizing such training on regular basis viz dairy farming, poultry farming, piggery farming and many other tailor made courses as per demand . A senior farmer and participant of this training programme thanked the university and organizers for such a meticulously organized training. Training. Dr. R. S. Sahota, course coordinator of the training gave a word of advice to all the outgoing farmers. All the farmers were provided University literature and also subscribed for monthly magazine Vigyanik Pashu Palan.
