Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education (GADVASU) , Ludhiana organized the second knowledge Upgradation Programme for Dairy Farmers from 11 to 15 July 2011. It is worth mentioning here that GADVASU is going to organize series of such training programmes for farmers and veterinary officers of the country. These training programmes are sponsored by Indian Immunological Limited, Hyderabad. On this occasion Mr CH. Srinivasa Sastry ,Customer Relations Manager, Indian Immunologicals revealed that the company is trying its best to upgrade the scientific knowledge of the dairy farmers of the country and for that, the company has shortlisted the farmers and other technical officers from the country and they are being trained at GADVASU, Ludhiana. Mr Sastry said that through the adoption of scientific and recommended practices it is very easy to increase the milk productivity of the animals. We cannot afford to increase the population of animals, as country is having around 16% animals of world, but we can definitely improve the performance of our animals through these recommended advanced practices in dairy farming. Twenty two farmers of Gujrat, Andra Pradesh and Maharashtra State including two women farmers participated in this training programme in which, information regarding milch breeds of animals, balanced feeding of dairy animals, housing, vaccination, deworming, infertility problems, right time of insemination, , clean milk production, marketing of milk and milk products were provided to the farmers. Dr HK Verma, Head, Department of Animal Husbandry Extension Education mention here that the Department is continuously organizing training programmes on dairy , piggery , goat, poultry, rabbit and fish farming and also tailor made training programmes as per demand. Further, Dr Verma told that due to many option in livestock farming, it is the best viable option for self employment for the unemployed youth. One can start with little inputs farming like goat; poultry to large input farming like dairy farming after getting basic training on these farming’s from Veterinary varsity. Dr Verma revealed that the participants were very progressive and enthusiastic to know more about the scientific knowledge about dairy farming. Almost all the participants had purchased the university literature. One week training programme was coordinated by Drs SK Kansal and Rajesh Kasrija which concluded today. In the end, an evaluation of the course was done by a short test and two farmers were awarded Best Participant Award by Dr HK Verma and Dr RS Sahota. Such type of appreciation will bring healthy competition among the participants. All the participants who underwent this training were highly appreciative of the course structure, the state of art facility and the high quality of training imparted during the programme.
