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ICAR-IVRI organized interface meet with the Veterinary Officers of Animal Husbandry
Department, Dairy Development Department , Milk Federation and Subject Matter
Specialists of KVKs of Punjab on 25thMarch, 2015 at GADVASU, Ludhiana
An interface meet between the Veterinary Officers
of
Animal Husbandry
Department, Dairy
Development Department , Milk Federation and
Subject Matter Specialists of KVKs , Government
of Punjab with Scientists of Indian Veterinary
Research Institute was held on 25th March, 2015
at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal
Science University (GADVASU), Ludhiana in
collaboration with the ZPD-I, Ludhiana and the
State Department of Animal Husbandry, Punjab.A
total of 141 participants including 95 Veterinary
Officers from the State Animal Husbandry
Department, 6 officers from Dairy Development
Department and Milk Federation, 16 Subject
Matter Specialists from different KVK’s
ofPunjaband 24 faculty members of GADVASU ,
Ludhiana participated in the meet. The
programme was inaugurated by Dr. H.S. Sandhu,
Dean,
College of Veterinary Sciences,
GADVASU, Ludhiana. On this occasion Dr.
Rajvir Singh , Project Director, Zonal Project
Directorate, Zone-I , Ludhiana and Dr. Talwar,
Deputy Director, Disease Diagnostic Laboratory,
Ludhiana were also present. Dr Sandhu in his
inaugural address threw light on the importance
of the interface meet and urged the researchers to
do more research on the issues related to climate
change and their effect on animal health. Dr.
Rajbir Singh, Director, ZPD-I, Ludhiana in his
remarks stated the importance of such interface
meets and congratulated the initiative of IVRI for
organizing such a meet at Ludhiana. He showed
immense interest in the livestock related
technologies and their promotion among the field
veterinarians and subject matter specialists. He
mainly emphasized on more researches to be done
on the climate change related issues and its
mitigation strategies for livestock to maintain their
production and productivity and also emphasized
on organic livestock production. He was very
much enthusiastic about the Interface meet and
reiterated that more such meets should regularly
be organized to bridge the gap between technology
generation and its transfer to the field level. The
technical session of the interface meet started with
presentations of Scientists from IVRI. Various
presentations which included topics on “Technologies developed, patented and commercialized
by IVRI”, “Emerging and reemerging diseases of livestock", “Recent advances in livestock
reproduction interventions”, “Surgical intervention and related package of practices”,“Strategic
feed supplementation for improving animal production and health”and “Major parasitic diseases
of livestock and their control”were delivered during the meet. The technical session was
followed by elaborate discussions between the Veterinary Officers, Dairy development officers,
SMS of KVK and the scientists about the problems in the field and their solutions.
Various queries and issues were raised by the field veterinarians of Punjab which
were solved by the IVRI scientists and faculty from GADVASU. The main queries were as
follows:Issue of use of combinational anthelmintic therapy in veterinary treatment and the
consequences, why there is a need for deworming 80% of the herd at one time,the use of
commercially available neem oil for intrauterine treatment, availability of herbal acaricide in
market for external parasites, availability of ready to use field kit for detecting adulteration in
milk, how to manage and prevent foreign body syndrome in bovine, availability of ready to use
field kits for identification of blood protozoan diseases such as Theileria, Babesia etc., minimum
time interval required between two Artificial Insemination, should urea be fed in the diet of high
yielders, what are the tree leaves that have anthelmintic effects and what should be the level of
their incorporation in the animal diet, which is the best antibiotic for curing mastitis, can
crystoscope be used in the field level by the farmers.
The main researchable and technology commercialization issues that emerged were:
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Development of ready to use field diagnostic kits for milk adulteration,
Diagnostic kits for blood protozoan diseases,
Development of homeopathic drugs for resistant parasitic infestations
Assessment of different binding material for preparing UMMB and
The availability of herbal acaricides in the market,
Availability of field kits for testing whether oxytocin has been used for milk let
down, and the effect of such milk on the consumers ,
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The effect of the indiscriminate use of oxytocin on animals.
The meeting ended with a satisfactory note from the field veterinarians as their queries
were solved. It was decided that more such Interface meets at regular intervals may be taken up
to create common platform for all the stakeholders involved in the technology generation and
dissemination process. It was also suggested by Dr. Rajbir Singh, Director ZPD-I, Ludhiana that
in such meets few successful farmers/ livestock owners should be invited and their problems may
also addressed.