DG, ICAR Honors Stakeholders for Registering Indigenous Livestock, Poultry, and Dog Breeds
17th January 2025, New Delhi ICAR honored the applicants of animal breeds registered between 2023 and 2025 during a ceremony organised today at the NASC Complex, ICAR. Dr Himanshu Pathak, Secretary (DARE) and Director General (ICAR), highlighted the breed applicants and stakeholders involved in breed registration in asserting sovereignty over native germplasm and documenting their […]
PAU-KVK Sangrur and Gadvasu Distributed Poultry Inputs to Flood Affected Farmers
In a joint initiative to assist flood-affected farmers in the region, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU)-Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Sangrur, in collaboration with Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, organized a backyard poultry input distribution programme at villages Hotipur and Nawangaon in Sangrur district. The event was held under the guidance of […]
Poultry Unit Established in Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour
Today, the poultry unit was inaugurated by Dr. D.R. Singh, Vice Chancellor of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour. In this poultry unit, Skylark Bova breed of chicken is being reared which lays 300 eggs in a year. The capacity of this sophisticated poultry unit will be 5000 eggs per day, due to which the academic, non-academic […]
Poultry Science Centre Fatehgarh Sahib, Training on Poultry Farming
PAU-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Fatehgarh Sahib conducted training on poultry farming from 16 to 20 September 2024 in which 25 women of village Salana participated. The training programme was conducted under Project “Nutrition security and economic empowerment of rural women through backyard poultry in Fatehgarh Sahib District” sponsored by NABARD. Dr. Vipan Kumar Rampal informed that […]
Bihar Poultry & Aqua Expo to be Inaugurated by Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister at Gyan Bhawan, Gandhi Maidan, Patna
Bihar Poultry & Aqua Expo was inaugurated by Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister, Bihar Shri Samrat Chaudhary on 12.09.2024 at Gyan Bhawan, Gandhi Maidan, Patna. The event was graced by the presence of Shri Chaitanya Prasad, Development Commissioner, Government of Bihar, Dr. N. Vijayalakshmi, Principal Secretary, Animal & Fisheries Resources Department, Government of Bihar, Dr. D.R. […]
Training on Poultry Farming was Organized by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Gurdaspur
A 5-day training program on Poultry Farming was organized by 26.07.2024Krishi Science Center of Punjab Agricultural University, Gurdaspur. In which 50 students of district Gurdaspur participated and received training In this training program Dr. Ankush Paroch, Assistant Professor (Poultry Science) gave detailed and practical information to the learners about chicken maintenance, feeding, chicken breeds and […]
Training ‘Poultry Farming for Income Augmentation’ Organized by SAMETI—Uttarakhand
The institute organized ‘Poultry Farming for Income Augmentation Training’ from July 24 – 27, 2024. On the occasion of inauguration, Director Extension Education and SAMETI, Dr. Jitendra Kwatra said that poultry farming is a business which will help in increasing the income of farmers substantially. Using the poultry species developed by the university, farmers can […]
Workshop on Impact of Feed Supplements in Livestock and Poultry
Division of Animal Science, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair conducted three days workshop on Impact of feed supplements in livestock and poultry at tribal farming community of Harminderbay from 16 to 18, May 2022 under Scheduled Tribal Component in collaboration with DBT-Biotech Kisan Hub in commemoration of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava. Shri. Andrew, […]
Poultry Research Division
Way back in 1930s, the role of poultry in uplifting rural economy and alleviation of malnutrition was recognized and on the recommendations of Royal Commission on Agriculture (1927), a separate Poultry Research Section at the Imperial (now Indian) Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar (UP), Bareilly was created on March 11, 1939, which was later on […]
