Empowering women through dairy enterprise need of the hour: Expert

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 14

Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, (GADVASU) organised an eight-day Model Training Course (MTC) on “Women Empowerment through Dairy Preneurship”. As many as 21 veterinary officers/scientist, including 18 female veterinarians from six states viz: Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab participated in the training programme.

The training was sponsored by the Directorate of Extension Education (DOE), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India and organised by the Directorate of Extension Education.

Dr HK Verma, Director of Extension Education and course director of the programme, interacted with the participants and said women were the backbone of dairy farming and constituted 70 per cent of the workforce.

He further stated that farm women were involved in dairy farm operations right from cleaning, feeding, milking to identification of sick and estrus animals, but participation in extension activities was very low. So, it became important to empower them with correct management practices.

This programme has provided practical information to the veterinarians involved in extension activities in rural areas about the latest technologies for maintaining the healthy animals to get better productivity.

The training programme was inaugurated by JPS Gill, Director Research, GADVASU, and he highlighted the importance of rural women in dairy sector.