Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension

INTRODUCTION

Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension Education was created in the year 1962 to flood livestock owners with information and innovative knowledge by adopting improved technologies that may enhance their skills, increase their productivity, provide more employment opportunities and to make them economically sound.

The department provides under-graduate and post-graduate teaching to the students to train them with extension methodologies for better diffusion of innovative researches among livestock owners. The department in addition to teaching also performs field extension activitiesto orient livestock holders with first-hand information ofinnovative livestock technologies.

Major activities of the department:

Under-graduate teaching in Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension according to the mandate and prescribed curriculum of the VCI.
To impart postgraduate teaching and advanced training programme in Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension.
Conduct research in the areas of extension, communication, training & teaching methods, extension management, marketing and entrepreneur sectors to promote livestock development.
To disseminate the applied research of University among livestock owners/ farmers in order to increase the production potential of their animals.
To get feedback from the farmers/ livestock owners/State Governments regarding various practices for future research and investigation.
To establish liason between state/central governments and the University by organizing training programmes for the state officers.

Contact details:

Head of the Department

Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension

College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry

U.P. Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwa Vidhyalaya

Evam Go-Anusandhan Sansthan, Mathura (U.P.) – 281001

Email: hod.vhe@upvetuniv.edu.in

STAFF POSITION

S.No.	Name	Designation
Teaching Staff
1.	Dr. Amit Singh, M.V.Sc., PhD	Professor & Head
2.	Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh M.V.Sc., PhD	Professor
3.	Dr. Pratiskhya Panda M.V.Sc., PhD	Assistant Professor

S.No.	Name	Designation
Non-Teaching Staff
1.	Shri Govind Singh Bhandari	Laboratory Technician
2.	Shri Beri Singh	Laboratory Attendant

TEACHING (COURSES OFFERED)

Under Graduate (B.V.Sc& A.H.)

S. No.

Course Title

Credit

Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education – Paper I

3 + 1

Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education – Paper II

3 + 1

Post-Graduate (M.V.Sc.)

S. No.	Course Title	Course No.	Credit
1.	Development Perspectives of Extension Education	EXT 601	2+1
2.	Communication for Livestock Development	EXT 602	1+1
3.	Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations	EXT 603	2+1
4.	Programme Planning and Evaluation	EXT 604	1+1
5.	Research Methodology	EXT 605	2+1
6.	Social Psychology and Group Dynamics	EXT 606	1+1
7.	Livestock Entrepreneurship	EXT 607	1+2
8.	Human Resource Management in Animal Husbandry Sector	EXT 608	1+1
9.	Gender Empowerment and Livestock Development	EXT 609	1+0
10.	Farm Journalism	EXT 610	1+1
11.	Masters Seminar	EXT 611	1+0
12.	Masters Research	EXT 612	0+30

Post-Graduate (PhD.)

S. No.	Course Title	Course No.	Credit
1.	Organizational Leadership and Management	EXT 701	2+0
2.	Recent Trends in Research Techniques in Social Sciences	EXT 702	2+1
3.	Training for Development	EXT 703	1+1
4.	Policies and Regulations in Livestock Sector	EXT 704	1+0
5.	Educational Technology	EXT 705	2+1
6.	Dynamics of Social Change	EXT 706	2+0
7.	Monitoring and Evaluation of Livestock Development Programmes	EXT 707	2+1
8.	Theory Constructions in Social Sciences	EXT 708	1+0
9.	Facilitation for Development	EXT 709	2+1
10.	Managing Extension Organizations	EXT 710	2+1
11.	Doctoral Seminar-I	EXT 711	1+0
12.	Doctoral Seminar-II	EXT 712	1+0
13.	Doctoral Research	EXT 713	0+75
14.	Research and Publication Ethics	RPE 700	1+1

RESEARCH

Research activities undertaken by the department through projects. The research projects are formulated and approved under Research Programme for transfer of technologies, Promoting scientific animal husbandry practices, development of ICT modules, evaluating the impact and regarding training need analysis of various stakeholders.

The department was associated with the following projects:

Name of the project	Duration	Budget	Funding agency
Completed project
Pashu Gyan Chaupal	2010-2013	135.0 Lakhs	RKVY
Conservation of Muzaffarnagari Sheep	2012-2016	79.0Lakhs	Min. of A.H. & Dairying
Imparting scientific knowledge of animal rearing for better production through technology transfer to livestock owner	2014-2016	14.0 Lakhs	UPCAR
Participatory development of plan for promoting scientific knowledge and better production in small ruminants: An Action Research	2021-2022	2.00	Institutional
Capacity Building & Entrepreneurship Development of farming community through establishment of Community Radio	2021-2023	98.57	RKVY

Facilities

Audio-visual technology laboratory with modern Equipment facilities

1.	Projection screens (fixed & portable)	2.	Interactive board
3.	Epidiascope	4.	Visualizer
5.	Overhead projector	6.	Display boards
7.	Slide projectors	8.	Panel boards
9.	Multimedia projector	10.	Television (coloured)
11.	Still and Video Camera	12.	Literature (Leaflet and folder)

Exhibition unit to exhibits scientific knowledge on animal husbandry

Group discussion chambers/mini seminar room

Farmers friendly extension literature covering different aspect of livestock

Extension Activities

Transfer of technologies on animal husbandry practices are displayed and disseminated to farmer by this department.
To conduct On and Off campus training programme on scientific animal husbandry practices for the farmers.
To organizes Need Based Training Programme to meet the requirements of livestock owners and funding agencies
Organization of Refresher Training Programmes for Veterinary Officers, Livestock Extension Officers of the State Animal Husbandry Department and Army Personnel’s.
Exposure Visit cum educational tours for farmers from different states under various schemes.
Display boards on covering major topic related to livestock production and management was designed and printed for the exhibition hall of the department. The list is as follows

1. Importance of Green fodder	2. Hay making
3. Urea treatment of Hay	4. Balanced concentrate ration
5. Urea Mollasses Mineral Block	6. Scarcity feeding of animals
7. Ectoparasite of animals	8. Endo Parasite – Cattle
9. Endo Parasite – Cattle	10.Endo Parasite – Poultry
11.Artificial Insemination	12.Retention of Placenta
13.Uterine Torsion	14.Uterine Prolapse
15.Sign of heat in animals	16.Precaution for preventing animals from disease
17.Vaccination Schedule – Cattle	18.Foot and Mouth Disease
19.Hemorrhagic Septicemia	20.Black Quater
21.Mastitis	22.Bird Flu
23.Swine Flu	24.Effect of Pesticides
25.Classification of Chemicals having toxic effects	26.Indigenous Buffalo Breeds
27.Indigenous Cattle Breeds	28.Indigenous Goat Breeds
29.Indigenous Sheep Breeds	30.Breeds of Poultry
31.Importance of Sheep Farming	32.Importance of Goat Farming
33.Poultry farming	34.Rabbit farming

Capacity Building Training Programmes Organized

S. No.	Name of the program organized	Sponsoring agency	Year
S. No.	Name of the program organized	Sponsoring agency	Year
1.	MAITRI (Multi-Purpose AI technician in Rural India) Training programme (Uttar Pradesh Livestock Development Board)	UPLDB	2024
2.	MAITRI (Multi-Purpose AI technician in Rural India) Training programme (Uttar Pradesh Livestock Development Board)	UPLDB	2023
3.	MAITRI (Multi-Purpose AI technician in Rural India) Training programme (Uttar Pradesh Livestock Development Board)	UPLDB	2021
4.	MAITRI (Multi-Purpose AI technician in Rural India) Training programme (Uttar Pradesh Livestock Development Board) 20th January to 18th February, 2021	UPLDB	2021
5.	MAITRI (Multi-Purpose AI technician in Rural India) Training programme (Uttar Pradesh Livestock Development Board)	UPLDB	2021
6.	Eight week Laboratory and X-Ray technique in Animals for SSB Personnel	Sashastra Seema Bal	2020