B. Ashok, Vice Chancellor, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU), has said that technology interventions are the need of the hour to maximise profit in dairy farming sector.
Speaking after inaugurating a two-day training programme on ‘Sustainable Dairy Production,’ as part of the Global Innovation initiative of the KVASU, at its headquarters at Pookode here on Monday, Dr. Ashok said the KVASU would collaborate with Malabar Regional Co-operative Milk Producers Union (MRCMPU) to provide veterinary and entrepreneurship services to dairy farmers in the region.
The KVASU would provide quality mineral mixtures to dairy co-operative societies. In order to maximise profit, dairy farmers should seriously think of value addition in dairying, he said.
Dr. Ashok said sustainable livestock farming aimed at producing livestock taking into account economic, social and environmental issues as well as global food safety and food security concerns. A global farm platform constituted for the purpose would address these major issues, Dr. Ashok said adding that KVASU, University of Bristol in the U.K., Wisconsin and Kansas Universities in the U.S., and Zhejiang University in China were the other partners of the platform.
The two-day programme is organised jointly by the KVASU, MRCMPU and the British Council.
