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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Poultry Training concludes at GADVASU

Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:15 PM
42 participants of Punjab State participated
Ludhiana-10-December, 2013: (Rector Kathuria//Punjab Screen):
The Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana organized two weeks poultry training. Forty two participants from various districts of Punjab State participated in the training programme. Participants were peculiar collection of poultry businessmen, representatives, graduates and unemployed youths. The complete capsule training programme on poultry was provided to the trainees on all aspects starting from selection of land, housing design, poultry management, feeding management of poultry birds, control of various diseases and  vaccination schedule, handling of eggs, marketing of poultry birds including preparation of project report and loan facilities etc.  Such large no. of trainees registered for the course depict that more  and more farmers are going to adopt diversification, with poultry farming. 
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A field visit to a progressive poultry farm was also organized to aware the poultry trainees about the practical aspects on poultry farming. After undertaking this training programme, one can start his own venture. All participants appreciated Guru Angad Dev Vety & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Director of Extension Education, as well as Head of department and course coordinators for organizing this training programme.  Dr. RS Sahota, Director of Extension Education was the chief guest at the concluding function and he said that poultry farming is an excellent field for employment as well as to meet the protein needs of the people. He also said that like other functional farmers’ associations, poultry farmers can form an association with the help of University, which can be useful for the growth of poultry farming in the state. Dr. JS Bhatti, Head, Vety Extension informed the trainees that department has various publications in local language and providing training on Dairy, Pig, Goat, value addition of the livestock produce. He also emphasized that it is the need of time to adopt the poultry farming in scientific way to earn more from this business.  Whereas Dr. Parminder Singh and Dr. Udeybir Singh coordinated this Programme Dr. SK Kansal coordinated all the technical inputs.

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