Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
The department came into existence in 1998 owing to implementation of VCI Guidelines for UG Teaching. The main emphasis of the department is to produce quality human resources through implementation of UG and PG Programmes in animal husbandry and veterinary sciences and to disseminate scientific knowledge and capacity building of livestock farmers through different extension modules like trainings, Melas, seminars, ICTs, awareness and welfare camps, publications etc. The department has developed strong liaison with State Departments of Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, State Veterinary Council, Milkfed, MANAGE, Hyderabad, PAMATI, Ludhiana in delivering technical lectures at various training programmes. The department also provides platform to various companies dealing in veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines, fodder seeds, agricultural implements etc. to showcase their products and services at the time of monthly meetings of various Farmer Associations.
Goals
- Advisory service to farmers, organization of Animal Welfare Camps, Animal Welfare Days, trainings for Dairy Farmers, Poultry farmers, Piggery Farmers. Inservice training programmes for field Veterinary staff. Organization of Pashu Palan Melas at Ludhiana campus and outstations participation in Kisan Melas/Awareness camps for knwoledge updation of the farmers,Mass communication with the farmers.
Thrust Area
- The department has liaison with the state govt. on the matters concerning with field of Vety. & Animal Husbandry for carrying out training programmes and extension activities. These will be organized as per demand/payment subject to the rules framed by Director of Extension Education.
- To update the livestock farmers for enhancing productions.
- To educate the livestock farmers for quality produce at low cost.
- Timely education of farmers through mass and print media and through publications.
Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
Dr.Rakesh Kumar Sharma
Address : Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education, College of Veterinary Science, GADVASU,Ludhiana 141004
Email: rksharma@gadvasu.in, hodvahee@gmail.com,rkkural@yahoo.com
Call: +91-9417200994, 0161-2414026
Fax: +91-161-2414026
Brief Introduction :
Dr. R.K.Sharma has joined as Head, Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education.
Faculty Detail
Dr. Jaswinder Singh
Designation : Professor
Contact Address : Directorate of Extension Education, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab 141004
Telephone : 0161-2414005
Mobile : 9915007594
Email : jaswindervet97@gmail.com
Academic Credentials
- B.V.Sc & AH
- M.V.Sc Animal Nutrition
- Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition
Teaching appointments
- Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education Communiation and its role in veterinary science
- Type of farming
- Farm Journalism
- Adoption of Innovation
Other appointments
- Assistant Professor in Department of Animal Nutrition in Apollo College of Veterinary Medicine (ACVM), Jaipur- Rajasthan from 23 Aug, 2004 to 1 Jan 2007
Area of research
- Value chain analysis of Livestock farming,
- Occupational hazards in livestock sector
- Constraints analysis of livestock farming
Ongoing projects
|
S No |
Name Of The Project |
Involved As |
Sponsoring Agency |
Amount/ Year |
Status |
|
1 |
Exploring
The Gaps In Veterinary Education In India To Match The Graduate Skills With
Stakeholders Level” |
Principal Investigator |
ICAR,
New Delhi |
14.30
Lakh 2016-2017 |
Completed |
|
2 |
Integrated
Approaches For Livestock Development: Farmers Context |
COPI |
Farmer First Program,
Icar, New Delhi |
139.40
Lakh 2016-2021 |
Continue |
|
3 |
Sustainable Livestock Based Farming System For
Livestock Security In Hoshiarpur District Of Punjab |
Associated Scientist |
National
Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) ICAR,
New Delhi |
4.85
Crore 2008-2014 |
Completed |
|
4. |
Technology Assessment And Refinement- An
Institute Village Linkage Project |
CoPI |
GADVASU
Ludhiana |
2007-2011 |
Completed |
|
5. |
Subscribing
Animal Husbandry Monthly Magazine Namely “Vigiyanik Pashu Palan” Published By
GADVASU, Ludhiana To 850 Farmers Club
In Punjab State. |
Co PI |
NABARD |
4.7lakh |
Ongoing |
|
6. |
Toward
Climate Resilient Livestock Production System In Punjab” |
Co- Principal
Investigator |
Ministry
Of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Govt Of India |
17.4
Crore 2016-2018
|
Completed |
|
7. |
Evaluation
Of Livestock Policies And Programme For The Management Of Animal Genetic
Resources In Haryana And Punjab States: |
Associated Scientist |
ICAR_ NBAGR Karnal |
NBAGR
Funded 2018
onward |
Completed |
|
8. |
Antibiotic
Resistance At Animal Human Interface Under Niche Area Of Excellence, |
Associated Scientist |
ICAR,
New Delhi |
334.05
lakh 2018-onward |
Completed. |
|
9. |
Capacity
Building of human resources in Livestock sector using augmented and virtual
reality |
Co-
Principal Investigator |
RKVY |
45
Lakh |
Completed |
Research honours awards
- 2017 Got "Budding Extensionist Award" in 2nd National Conference of Society for Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension (SVAHE) held at SKUAST-Jammu on 10-12 April 2017
- 2018 Best Extension Worker Award in first annual day of GADVASU from Worthy Vice Chancellor, GADVASU, Ludhiana on 23.2.2018.
- 2019 Best Teacher Award (Animal Science)- Award in second annual day of GADVASU from Worthy Vice Chancellor, GADVASU, Ludhiana in 2019
- 2021 Associate Fellow, National Academy of Dairy Sciences (India) for the year 2021
- 2022 Got Best Language (Punjabi) Film Award on Video “Zoonosis- Disease Between Animals and Human’ in MANAGE Agri Film Festival-2022 held on 11 March 2022 at National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad, Telangana.
- 2022 National Young Scientist Award by Indian Society for Advancement of Canine Practice Indian Society for Advancement of Canine Practice given at XVIIIth Convention held on 22-24 Sep 2022 at Udaipur, Rajasthan.
- 2022 Best MVSc Thesis award to my master student " Harmandeep Singh ( I am his Major Advisor)at National conference of SVAHE held at Palampur 2022.
- 2023 Best Extension Worker Award-2022 by the Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana
- 2023 First Best Research Paper Award to the article from the thesis of my MVSc student titled" Milk Quality and Safety issues inside the farm gate of dairy farmers of Punjab (India) Authored by H Singh, Jaswinder Singh, HK Verma, and SK Kansal published in Indian Journal of Dairy Science by Indian Dairy Association (IDA)
No of publications
|
Publication
- Chadda, A., Singh, J., Sharma, R. K., Gupta, R. K., & Kansal, S. K. (2024). Bottlenecks analysis using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) throughout the value chain of small ruminants in India. Small Ruminant Research, 230, 107169.
- J Taaffe, Rajneesh Sharma, Aravindh Babu R. P. Jaswinder Singh, P Kaur, BB Singh Jatinder P S Gill, Dhinkar Raj Gopal, N K Dhand and Falgunee K Parekh (2023) One Health activities to reinforce intersectoral coordination at local level in India. Frontier in Public Health 11:1041447.
- HK Tiwari, Vishal Proch, BB Singh, K Schemann, Michael Ward, Jaswinder Singh, JPS Gill and Navneet Dhand (2022) Brucellosis in India: comparing exposure amongst veterinarian, paraveterinarians and animal handlers. One Health 14(2022)-100367.
- Dhand, N. K., Singh, Jaswinder., Josan, H. S., Singh, B. B., Jaswal, N., Tiwari, H. K., Polychronis Kostoulas,M S Khatkar, RS Aulakh Manmeet Kaur & Gill, J. P. (2021). The feasibility and acceptability of various bovine brucellosis control strategies in India. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 189, 105291
- doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1041447.
- Akshita Chadda, YS Jadoun, Jaswinder Singh and SK Kansal (2021) Comparative analysis of beneficiaries and non beneficiaries about scientific livestock farming practices. Indian Journal of Animal Research (preprint) DOI: 10.18805/IJAR.B-44046.40.
- Jaswinder Singh, B B Singh, HK Tiwari, Harmandeep Singh Josan, Nidhi Jaswal, Manmeet Kaur, Polychronis Kostoulas, M S Khatkar, RS Aulakh, JPS Gill and Dhand N (2020) Using Dairy Value chains to identify production constraints and biosecurity risk. Animals (MDPI). 10: 2332.
- Vidya Nimbalkar, Verma HK, Singh Jaswinder and Kansal SK (2020) Awareness and adoption of Subclinical Mastitis diagnosis among dairy farmers of Punjab, India. Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Science 44: 844-852.
- Jaswinder Singh, Paviter Kaur, Manjinder Sharma, N D Singh, Nitin Mehta, APS Sethi and SS Sikka (2019) Effect of combination of garlic powder with black pepper, cinnamon and aloe verapowder on the growth performance, blood profile, and meat sensory qualities of broiler chickens. The Indian journal of Animal Science, 89(12):1370-1376,December 2019.
- Jaswinder Singh, M Sharma, N. Mehta, ND Singh, Paviter Kaur, APS Sethi and SS Sikka (2018) Influence of Supplementation of black pepper powder through feed in broiler chickens on their growth performance, blood profile, meat sensory qualities and duodenum morphology. Indian Journal of Animal Science 88(2): 215-221
- Jaswinder Singh, Manjinder Sharma, ND Singh Paviter Kaur, APS Sethi and SS Sikka (2017) Effect of sun dried whole bulb garlic powder on nutrient utilization, blood parameters, duodenum morphology and faecal microbial load in broiler chickens. Indian Journal of Animal Science.87 (2): 195–198
Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
Former Faculty
| Sr. No. | Name | Designation | Superannuation/ Transfer/ Promotion | Photograph |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dr. H.K Verma | Professor (Ex-Dee) | 30-09-2020 | |
| 2. | Dr. Suresh Kumar Kansal | Professor |  |
Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
The department is involved in transferring the technologies or correct practicies to the livestock farmers for enhancing productivity at low cost.
Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
- Overall incidence of reproductive disorders in different agroclimatic regions of Punjab is 19.11% in buffaloes and 15.05% in cows.
- Major reproductive disorders in buffaloes is anoestrus (31.98%) in cows repeated breeding (35.06%).
- Anoestrus and repeat breeding is related with deworming, mineral mixture, supplementation and concentrate feeding in animals.
- Adoption of A.I. by the dairy farmers is related with education, herd size, extension contacts, mass media exposure, distance from civil veterinary hospital and total dairying experience.
- Adoption of A.I. in cows is 41.67%, however, in buffaloes it is 17.78%.
- Miscellaneous perceptions exist in the dairy farmers regarding adoption of A.I. and dairy farmers prefer natural service in specific areas of Punjab.
- The level of adoption of dairy practices is higher in progressive farmers.
- The highest level of adoption is observed in calf management practices, followed by breeding, milking, feeding, health care and lowest for housing practices.
- High cost and complexity of feeding practices are main barriers in adoption of recommended feeding practices.
Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
- Study revealed that majority of Dairy farm women were having medium knowledge regarding management practice, feeding and health.
- Majority of the dairy farm women were having no concept of silage making post milking teat dip.
- Only 40% of dairy farm women are aware of importance of Mineral mixture and were feeding to their animals.
- More than 80% of dairy farm women wanted to be trained in scientific dairy farming at village level.
- While studding the impact of training on the trainee it was found that majority of trainee were in the age group of 20-30 year and had studied up to maticulate level.
- There was significant gain the knwoledge of the trainee with respect to various sub area of dairying after attending training programme.
- Overall adoption of artficial insemination was 57.22% in Punjab which was highest in flood plain zone and lowest in western plain zone of PB.
- Adoption of FMD & HS vaccination was grantor to full extent where as deworming, tick control & udder health management were not fully adopted by farmer of all agroclimatic zones of Punjab.
Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
| Research | : | 224 |
| Extension | : | 1310 |
| Books/Mannuals | : | 7/5 |
List of Publications
| Sr. No. | Name of Book | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Package of practices for Livestock and Poultry (Pbi. & Eng) | 100.00 |
| 2 | Dairy farming (Punjabi) | 60.00 |
| 3 | Goat Farming in Punjab (Pbi & Eng) | 70.00 |
| 4 | Handbook on Infectious Animal Diseases | 225.00 |
| 5 | Veterinary Punjabi Dictionary | 60.00 |
| 6 | Carp Fish Farming (Pbi) | 70.00 |
| 7 | Poultry Farming (Pbi) | 70.00 |
| 8 | Home Tips of Livestock Farmers (Pbi) | 25.00 |
| 9 | Vigyanak Pashu Palan (Montly Punjabi Magazine) | 25.00 |
| 10 | GADVASU Handbook (Pbi & Eng) | 100.00 |
| 11 | Reproductive Management of Dairy Animals (Punjabi and Hindi) | 80.00 |
| 12 | Reproduction Calendar (Punjabi) | 30.00 |
| 13 | Veterinary Shabadkosh (Dictonary) (Now available as trilingual i.e. English, Punjabi and Hindi) | 60.00 |
Subscription rates of Vigyanak Pashu Palan (Monthly Punjabi Magazine)
| Sr. No. | Name of Book | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | One copy | 25.00 |
| 2 | Annual Subscription (For one year) | 250.00 |
| 3 | Annual Subscription (Foreign Countries) | $50.00 |
| 4 | Five Year Subscription | 1000.00 |
| 5 | Ten Year Subscription | 2000.00 |
| 6 | Life Long Subscription | 2500.00 |
| 7 | Institutional Member (Life Long Subscription) | 3500.00 |
Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
- The Department has a well equipped Audio Visual aid Laboratory catering to the need of students and farmers. There is farmer’s helpline, farmer’s advisory service, extension lectures, camps, trainings as per the demand of the animal welfare agencies of the state.
- Seminar for Progressive Dairy Farmer's Association, Progressive Piggery Farmer's Association, Fish Farmer's Club.
- Pashu Palan Mela at GADVASU, Ludhiana
- Animal welfare day/field days
- Animal welfare camp
- Awareness camps
- Exhibition
- University Publications
- Monthly magazine, Vigyank Pashu Palan
- Training programmes on dairy, Poultry, Piggery for Farmer's
- Refresher/training programme for field functionaries
- Telephone Helpline: 0161-2414005
Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education
- Appreciation certificate by Honable Vice Chancellor, GADVASU
- Best paper award in IDA Conference
- Young Scientist Awards
- Appreciation Awards by IJVS
- Gold Medal for Best paper in Equine Surgery at National Conference of IJVS
- Organized and attended training by PUM Experts