18th August, 2019, Bengaluru
The Short-Term Training Programme on "Feed and Fertility Management in Livestock” organized at the ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bengaluru concluded today. The programme was organized from 9th to 18th August, 2019.
The programme was sponsored by the India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS - III) by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India for the benefit of the African nationals.
The Chief Guest of the Valedictory Function, Dr. S. Abdul Rahman, Executive President of the Commonwealth Veterinary Association highlighted the current challenges of the livestock sector in terms of the food security and safety, emerging diseases, climate change and antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Rahman also released the compendium and felicitated the participants with the certificates.
The various lectures and practical sessions of the training focused on The training had a mix of lectures and practical classes focused on agronomic management of new varieties of forage crops and fodder trees; alternate feed resources for livestock, conservation of fodder, hydroponics and azolla cultivation; nutritional management, precision feeding and ration balancing; Amelioration strategies for greenhouse gases; ration balancing tools; management of stress to improve productivity of livestock, fertility assessment and management of bulls; embryo transfer technology and assisted reproductive technologies and sorting of the sexed sperms, besides filed trip to cattle feed plant, KMF, Bangalore.
Dr. Raghavendra Bhatta, Director, ICAR-NIANP highlighted the importance of feed and fertility management of livestock to improve the efficiency of production and the need for capacity building in these areas through regular training.
Eight participants representing Kenya, Egypt, Sudan and Namibia participated in the training programme.
(Source: ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bengaluru)
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