The Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) will join hands with the Malabar Regional Cooperative Milk Producers Union (MRCMPU) to strengthen veterinary services in the State.
At a meeting held at the university headquarters at Pookode here on Tuesday, the KVASU and the MRCMPU entered in to an agreement to collaborate in the areas of veterinary services, entrepreneurship development, technology transfer, and knowledge dissemination in the six northern districts of the State.
“The university will establish a Dairy Business School on the Pookode campus to train entrepreneurs,” KAVASU Vice Chancellor B. Ashok told The Hindu . He said the ‘e-Vet connect,’ KVASU's round-the-clock veterinary services, would be linked to the Veterinary and Entrepreneurship Centres.
Recruitment
Fifty veterinary graduates and 25 diploma holders in laboratory animal techniques will be recruited for establishing the centres. The selection will be made through campus recruitment, Dr. Ashok said.
Besides this, the KVASU would provide area-specific mineral mixtures to dairy cooperative societies through MRCMPU, he added.
As part of strengthening extension programme, the Directorate of Entrepreneurship of the KVASU would organise farmer-scientists interactions, farmer outreach programmes, and capacity building programmes for livestock-based women self-Help groups in collaboration with the MRCMPU and Kudumbasree Mission, T.P. Sethumadhavan, Director of Entrepreneurship, KVASU, said.
Entrepreneurship
Moreover, the university will organise entrepreneur- to- banker and buyer- to- buyer meetings to promote livestock-based entrepreneurship in the State.
Student entrepreneurship will pave the way for consumer-friendly technology initiatives. Technology Business Centres will facilitate new product development and evolution of new delivery models, Dr. Sethumadhavan, said.
Dairy Business School planned on varsity campus
Area-specific mineral mixtures for dairy societies
