nnual review meeting of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) sponsored Outreach project on “Estimation of methane emission under different feeding systems and development of mitigation strategies” is held on 8th July at Animal Nutrition Department of 
Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University, Ludhiana. Dr. Manju Wadhwa, HoD revealed that Methane is a potent greenhouse gas accountable for global warming and Indian livestock are one of the major sources for anthropogenic methane emission in the country, but the exact emission figures are not exactly known. Moreover, the diverse feeding practices prevailing in different states also lead to different emissions. Principal investigators from participating centres have presented the progress report. Seven centres including GADVASU, Ludhiana are trying to address these issues. ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore which is the lead centre for the project has developed the enteric methane emission database for the South and North Indian states including Punjab. Dr. H. Rahman, Deputy Director General (Animal Science) ICAR said that it’s an important issue to keep environment more clean and healthy for human being as well as livestock also. Dr A S Nanda, Vice-Chancellor GADVASU said that this is an important 
project which covers almost every part of India and outcome of this project will definitely improve the condition and health of environment.
Dr. Wadhwa said that the livestock in Punjab state emitting 0.25 million metric tonnes enteric methane per year. While presenting the report, researchers told that Uttar Pradesh with 1.5 million metric tonnes is largest methane emitting state of the country. The researchers from various institutes are trying to curb the enteric methane emission by 20-25 percent of the present level. Dr. H. Rahman, Dr. A. S. Nanda, Dr. B. Prakash, Assistant Director General (Animal Nutrition & Physiology), ICAR and project coordinator, Dr. Raghavendra Bhatta, Director NIANP, Bangalore has reviewed the progress of various participating centre. The expert panel has emphasized the need to evaluate already developed mitigation strategies in lactating cattle and buffaloes and also to compare the variation in methane emission between indigenous and crossbred cattle. The panel of the experts also stressed upon the need to compare the methane emission from cattle and buffaloes for producing one kilogram of milk.
