Dairy News
Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University organizes a special seminar on dairy farming
Monday, 16/09/13
LUDHIANA: Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) organized a seminar on 'Dairy Farming as a sustainable venture' for the farmers. PK Uppal, advisor of animal husbandry to the government of Punjab was chief guest on this occasion and inaugurated the seminar.
Uppal said that Punjab government is stressing on dairy farming which has become a sun shine area and the government is pushing very hard to promote it. He added that the government is providing all the facilities including subsidies, soft loans as well as education part to the farmers. He claimed that the state is poised to be a dairy state in upcoming time.
Inderjit Singh, director, Punjab dairy development department of government of Punjab presided over the function while RS Sahota, director of extension education, GADVASU was the guest of honour. The seminar was attended by large number of livestock farmers including women farmers from different districts of Punjab and also by trainees of training centres of dairy development. In the seminar, AL Saini, professor-cum-head, department of livestock production management delivered lecture on the topic 'Shelter Management' in context to modern dairy farming while RS Grewal, animal nutritionist spoke on 'Balance feeding in dairy animals'. HK Verma, professor, department of veterinary and animal husbandry extension education shared his views on 'Common reproductive disorders and their management in dairy animals'. A question-answer session was also organized where queries of farmers were also dealt.
Inderjit Singh, director, said that department is fully geared to provide all the support to the dairy farmers in the form of subsidies through Punjab Dairy Development Board (PDDB).