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27-28
Mar 03
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XXI
Conference of Indian Poultry Science Association and National Symposium on
"Diversification of Poultry for Nutritional Security"
Organized
by : Indian Poulty Science Association & Central Avian Research Institute
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Address
for Correspondence
Dr.
T. S. Johri, Organizing Secretary, IPSACON-2003, CARI, Izatnagar, Bareilly-243 122, UP (India)
Tel
: 0581-2446948, 2447223 Fax
: 0581-2447321 Email
: ipsacon2003@rediffmail.com
ipsacon2003@yahoo.com
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7-9 Feb 03
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XXI
Conference of Indian Association of Veterinary Microbiologists, Immunologists
and Specialists in Infectious Diseases (IAVMI) and National Symposium on "Prospects
and challenges for better livestock and poultry health management employing
conventional and molecular approaches"
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Organizing Secretary Dr. H. Rahman, Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH region, Umroi Road, Umiam - 793103, Meghalaya.
Tel (O) : 0364-570382
Fax : 0364-570382
Email : iavmi@icarneh.ren.nic.in rahmanh@icarneh.ren.nic.in habiburrahman56@hotmail.com
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7-9 Feb 03
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XXI annual Convention of
Indian Society for Veterinary Medicine (ISVM) and National Symposium - " Focusing on need to develop new diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive approaches to deal with diseases of farm and companion animals" IVJ nov02
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Dr.P.R.Patel,
Org. Secretary, Dept of Vet. Medicine, College of Vet. Sci & AH, Anand, Gujarat
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28
Dec 02
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National Seminar on 'Recent trends in livestock feeds and feeding' held at
V.P.Hall, Manjeri, Kerala on 28th December 02.The seminar was arranged as part of the annual state meet of veterinarians of Kerala - namely Nila Fest - 2002. Around 300 veterinarians and scientists participated in the seminar.
Chairman CLFMA and Vice president Godrej Agrovet Sri.C. Subba Rao delivered key note address
Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan from Animal Husbandry Department, Kerala presented a paper on livestock feed
sector-prospects and problems. Dr.George Mathen, chief nutritionist, KSE Ltd presented a paper on feed
additives to improve productivity. Dr. Shyam Mohan of Kerala agricultural university presented a paper on present scenario of mineral status of livestock and feed in
Kerala. Vikasraj of Burns Philip India Ltd, Mumbai presented a paper on effect of natural probiotics in animals and aqua and Dr. Umesh of EFFEM
India Ltd presented a paper on pet foods.
Dr. J. Abraham, Director, Meat science dept of Kerala Agri. University was the moderator.
Dr. V. Sunil Kumar, Chairman seminar committee co-ordinated the session and
Dr. Udayavarman, Registrar, Kerala state veterinary council addressed the delegates.
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Nov 02
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"Production, selection, evaluation and exploitation of genetic potential of breeding bulls need considerable emphasis" says Smt. Binoo Sen, Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India while delivering the key note address in the three day National Seminar on Sire Selection for Milk Production Enhancement in Tropics held on 20th Nov 2002 at Kerala Livestock Development Board farm at Mattupatti, Munnar. Kerala Livestock Development Board, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and Kerala jointly organized the seminar.
In real sense, a bull contributes more than half to the genetic improvement of the herd since the sire is more intensely selected rather than the cow and used for more than one female. When countries advanced in dairy cattle breeding select sons of top dams after proper evaluation for maximizing their use through artificial insemination network, a review of the policies and programs for production of breeding bulls in our country will be much more informative to the researchers and planners. The demand for milk being income elastic and steadily rising with growth in GDP, breeding programs and policies have to be conceived with twin objectives of achieving the targeted milk production and sustaining the bullock population for draught purpose without making any significant change in total bovine population. So, the target of milk production can only be achieved by changing the composition of livestock that is replacing the non-descript local cattle and buffalos by crossbred ones.
During the last three decades, Kerala has made substantial progress in this sector. This State could
transform more than two thirds of its local cattle into high producing crossbreds. The milk production in the state has gone up from 2.21 lakh tons in 1964-65 to 29.07 lakh tons in 2001-02. The per capita milk consumption increased up to 235 gm per day during the above period. Due to high literacy rate, the farmers willingly adopted modern technologies for increased productivity. Kerala is responsible for mainstreaming frozen semen technology in the country. In this sector, the state did commendable work in the field progeny-testing programme. The major task for animal breeders is to exploit developments in biotechnology for identification and faster propagation of superior germplasm.
A review of the existing breeding policy, programme and their effectiveness is needed in this context. Moreover, Smt. Binoo Sen opined that new approaches in the areas of feeding, management, disease control, and quality control measures are needed for ensuring food safety, gender issues and poverty alleviation in the area of dairy development. Constant attention of policy makers, researchers,
extension workers and farmers are needed.
Smt. Neeraja Rajkumar, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, while addressing the gathering stressed the need for popularizing mobile Artificial Insemination programmes in the country. It will be more cost effective to the farming community. Moreover, she opined that while
giving more thrust to crossbreeding programme, care should also be taken to preserve the germplasm of
local cattle. Indian breeds like Gir, Sahiwal, Red Sindhi and Murrah buffalos can also be used for the
crossbreeding programme.
Shri S. Subbiah, Secretary to Government of Kerala, AH& Dairy Development, told that Government is
implementing novel programmes with regard to marketing of livestock products in the animal husbandry sector. While presenting a paper on "Breeding policy of Kerala", Dr. B. Sasikumar, Managing Director, Kerala Livestock Development Board detailed the spectacular growth achieved in the cattle breeding activities of the state. Future strategies in this sector should be aimed at augmenting genetic potential of crossbreds, increasing the proportion of crossbred cattle, providing optimum environment for their survival and scientific reproductive management practices. Dr. Harisankar of KLDB presented a paper on prospects of mobile A.I. practices and officials from TransIT, Trivandrum presented a paper on farm mate - software for bull selection in bull mother farms.
The inaugural function of the National Seminar on Sire Selection Programme in Tropics held at Tata Tea
Ground, Munnar in the forenoon of 20th Nov 2002. Smt. Binoo Sen inaugurated the function and Smt. Annie Babu, President of the Munnar Gramapanchayat presided. Smt. Neeraja Rajkumar released the compendium of scientific papers. Shri A. Salim, RDO, Devicolam, and Dr.K.Udayavarman, Registrar, Kerala State Veterinary Council offered felicitations. Shri S. Subbiah, Secretary (AH&DD) Government of Kerala welcomed the gathering and Dr.B.Sasikumar, Managing Director, KLDB offered vote of thanks. Around 100 delegates from Department of Animal Husbandry, KCMMF, NDDB, NDRI and national institutions participated in the seminar
A cattle show with more than 300 heads of cattle was also arranged at Munnar in connection with this seminar and prizes distributed to the winners.
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