Vet varsity organises livestock-based training programmes

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, July 16

Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), has started three training programmes. Two specialised pig farming trainings are being conducted by the department of veterinary and animal husbandry extension education and the department of livestock production management. The training programmes will run for one week and three days, respectively.

The trainees will be provided basic knowledge on topics such as breeding, feeding, day-to-day care and management, shed design and structures, weather management, vaccination protocols, diseases and their prevention, value addition of pork and economics of pig farm. Another one-week training programme on ‘value addition of milk’, where trainees will learn about various milk products such as dahi, lassi, mozzarella cheese, flavoured milk and packaging, will be conducted by the College of Dairy Science.

HK Verma, director of extension education, said a total of 77 trainees, including 7 women trainees from avrious districts of Punjab and adjoining states, are participating in these training programmes. Besides theoretical lectures, practical training is also being provided to the trainees with the aim to provide them fundamental information on how to run an enterprise at a commercial level, he added.

Meanwhile, the department of veterinary and animal husbandry extension education of GADVASU has also organised a one-week training programme on goat farming for the upliftment of small and marginal farmers and on how to run goat farming as an enterprise at a commercial level. Rajesh Kasrija, training coordinator, said a total of 38 trainees participated in the programme.

Verma said goat farming was gaining momentum in the state as young farmers and farm women were showing keen interest in goat farming.

SK Kansal, head of the Department of Veterinary Extension Education, said the university was disseminating knowledge on goat farming in the form of printed books and through a mobile app, which can be downloaded from Playstore. The university is also providing hand held support to farmers through the Progressive Goat Farmers Association.