Sopore Nov 16: One day, “Scientist-Stakeholders Meet” was jointly organized by Kashvet Innovations Private Limited (SKUAST-K Start-Up) and Mountain Research Center for Sheep and Goat, Shuhama, at Faculty of Agriculture Wadura,where Vice Chancellor, SKUAST-K, Prof. Nazir Ahmad Ganai was present as the Chief Guest, Director Research, SKUAST-K, Prof Haroon Naik as the Guest of honour and Director Sheep Husbandry Department, Dr Rafiq Ahmad Shah and Director Animal Husbandry, Dr Parvinder Sudan as the special Guests.
More than 100 sheep breeders & Dairy Entrepreneurs from across North Kashmir participated and interacted with the university’s scientists and officials and officers of the line department.
The Vice Chancellor advised the farmers to use the latest technologies developed by scientists of SKUAST-Kashmir.
_He urged veterinary scientists to make extra efforts in combating the challenges faced by sheep breeders & Dairy Entrepreneurs by training them in proper record keeping, scientific feeding, breeding and health management.
He congratulated KashVet Innovations and SKUAST-K Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center for realizing the dream of the University for effective transfer of technologies by way of Start-Ups
He hailed the efforts of organizers and scientists for their efforts in organizing such farmer-oriented programmes
Later, a scientist-farmer interaction was organized in which scientists from SKUAST-K and Officers from Sheep and Animal Husbandry interacted with them.
Those who also spoke on the occasion are Director Research SKUAST-K, Director Animal Husbandry, Dean Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Dean Faculty of Agriculture and Director KashVet Innovations Private Limited.
At the end of program Literature on scientific sheep and Dairy management was distributed among the farmers and two books, Sheep feeding in your pocket and Essentials of Profitable Dairy Farming were also released in the programme.
