Under the able guidance and leadership of Prof. J.P. Sharma, Honble Vice-Chancellor, SKUAST-Jammu, a five days training programme on Empowering (capacity building) of women through livestock farming concludes at Division of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, SKUAST- Jammu, R.S. Pura. This, third in series of twelve number of five days training programme in the financial year 2022-23 was being sponsored by National Commission for Women (NCW), Govt. of India, New Delhi under their capacity building programmes.
Prof. M. S. Bhadwal, Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, R.S. Pura was the chief guest on the occasion. In his address, he congratulated the trainees (30 in numbers) for being selected for this training programme who have come from Laswara and Deoli villages of Jammu district. He asked the trainees about their experience and learning during the five days of training. Participants were happy about the theoretical and practical exposures received during the programme. Prof. Bhadwal was of the view that dairy animals are an important source of income, food, and nutritional security; and their further improvements in the productivity through scientific management, will substantially improves the well-being of smallholder dairy farmers by enhanced income from dairy enterprises.
At the outset, Dr Pranav Kumar, Training Coordinator of five days training programme and PI of the NCW sponsored project cum Assistant Professor, Division of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education welcomed the Chief Guest and gave brief details of the activities being conducted during the five days training programme. He informed the gathering that trainees were exposed to clinical visits and various practical demonstrations such as vermicompost making, cow dung log making, value addition of milk, natural farming preparations/concoctions like beejamrit, panchgvya, gaumutra & neem based bio-pesticides etc in such a way that they could start their own enterprise.
During the inaugural session of the training programme, a folder in Hindi on Lumpy Skin Disease was also released and distributed among the participants, whiled uring valedictory session, inputs (such as milk can, milk pot, strainer, tub, lactometer, apron, mineral mixture, dewormer, vermicompost, cow dung logs etc) were distributed among the trainees for scientific and hygienic rearing of dairy animals at farm level.
Convenors of the training programme namely Prof. Kamal Sarma, HoD, VAHEE and Prof. Sunil Kumar, HoD, LPT , while training co-coordinators Dr. Dhirendra Kumar, Dr. Vikas Mahajan and Dr. Jaswinder Singh Sasan, teaching & non-teaching staffs and post graduate students of the division were also present during the valedictory session
