A five-day training course on “Value addition of milk” organized by College of Dairy Science and Technology (CODST), Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana concluded with a sense of achievement on everybody’s face.
Greetings to the trainees including one women farmers/entrepreneurs who underwent training in the course, the chief guest, Dr. Parkash Singh Brar, Director Extension Education emphasized that value addition could help to enhance the economic well-being of the large number of farmers of Punjab. He congratulated the faculty for excellent training to the 
farmers/ entrepreneurs wherein theory and practical demonstrations were taken up by them with a great interest to persuade the farmers to start their own dairy processing business. He also revealed that the university conducts different types of training round the year on livestock, piggery, goat, poultry, fisheries and value addition of milk.
Dr. Ramneek, Dean, College of Dairy Science and Technology, congratulated the trainees and said that they should come up as budding entrepreneurs and be job providers instead of job seekers. He motivated the participants to maintain contact with the college experts and try to excel in the dairy processing and value addition through hard work and innovation. Course coordinators of training Dr. Inderpreet Kaur, Dr. Nitika Goel and Mr. Venus Bansal provided the overview of the activities carried 
out for the participants during the training course. They informed that five day training was technically designed, so that farmers/entrepreneurs could harness the beneficial aspects of training from manufacturing of different products, chemical and microbiological quality of different products, engineering aspects and economics and branding for proper handling of milk and milk products. An entrepreneur Mr. Rajpal Makhni shared his experience about the technical session of the training and mentioned that, they all in a group had an excellent practical experience of manufacturing of milk products and other technical know-how from learned faculty of CODST. Valedictory session was concluded with distribution of certificates to the participants.
