The Department of Livestock Production Management, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana is organizing a National Symposium on “Emerging Management Concepts for Sustainable Livestock & Poultry Production” and XIX Annual Convention of Indian Society of Animal Production and Management (ISAPM) from November 02-04, 2011. There are 990 life members of the society and approximately 150 annual members register every year with the body. In all probability, approximately 200 life members from different states of the country and 100 local scientists are likely to participate in this symposium to deliberate on different issues related with animal production.
Dr. A.L.Saini, Professor cum Head, Department of Livestock Production Management and Organizing Secretary, elaborated that Livestock and Poultry are integral components of more than 70% agrarian people of India which bestow them with livelihood security, animal protein, organic manure, traction power, fuel etc. Since useful management technologies are still out of reach of the common people, especially to the rural masses at their door step, resulting in creating a gap between developed and under developed areas. Sometimes, there are natural calamities like floods, fires, earthquakes etc. which create deficiencies of feeding material. Similarly package of practices for management of different categories of livestock are lacking. This symposium will be conducted in six sessions i.e. I-Animal Behaviour, Welfare and Breeding Management, II- Housing Management, III-Feeding and General Management, IV-Reproduction and Health Management, V-Product Harvesting, Marketing and Livestock Economics and VI-Plenary and concluding session. There will be two highlights of the symposium viz. It is being organized to celebrate World Veterinary Year-2011, as Veterinary Science has completed 250 years of service to the animal health care and two sessions are exclusively dedicated to this celebration. Secondly, session on scientist-farmer interaction will be the star attraction as the farmers will be able to interact with scientists from entire
Dr. V.K.Taneja, Vice Chancellor, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University will be the Chief Guest and inaugurate the session.
This symposium will come up with complete suggestions and proposals to over come various Livestock Management problems. Its recommendations will be very beneficial for the farmers, scientist, planners and policy makers of the country. On this occasion, a souvenir and compendium will be published to highlight various activities.
