Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana organized one week Specialized Training on Goat farming. Dr Jaswinder Singh Bhatti, HoD, & Course Director informed that with the changing life style and eatery habits, people have started diversifying from the traditional patterns of livestock rearing. Farmers from all over Punjab and its neighboring states attended the training programme and showed keen interest in learning the techniques used in goat rearing. Dr Bhatti added that trainees have been given knowledge about housing, nutrition and feeding management practices. Apart from these issues, they have also been trained to handle the new born kids and methods of weaning, care and management of new born have also been taught to them. Participants were also been given training on the value addition of the goat byproducts. Dr M P Gupta was the technical coordinator of the training. Dr Udeybir Singh, course coordinator, informed that 61 farmers participated in the training and they learnt all the new techniques enthusiastically. It is important to mention that all these trainings are conducted under the able guidance of Dr R S Sahota, Director of Extension Education, GADVASU Ludhiana. Dr R S Sahota said that the veterinary varsity is organizing such trainings programmes regularly and he informed that another training of two weeks duration for dairy farmers will be organized from 13-24 Jan, 2014 and those who are interested can get themselves registered for the training.
