COVASPBN - Livestock Farm Complex

About Livestock Farm Complex

Livestock Farm Complex
Staff	I/c DDR: 01 I/c Farm Manager: 01 Lab Technician: 01
Objectives	Basic training to undergraduate students. Research on production, reproduction, and management. 100+ strength of Red Kandhari cattle and Buffaloes maintained as per VCI norms. Small ruminant requirements as per VCI norms maintained.
Livestock Strength	Red Kandhari: 159 Buffalo: 26 Osmanabadi Goat: 63 Deccani Sheep: 50
Infrastructure	Office building, animal sheds, loose house, Tractor with tractor-drawn equipment, Irrigation facility
Education & Training	UG & PG practicals, Trainings like MAVIM, Maitri, and other farmer/student trainings
Research Activities	PhD and Post Graduate student research works
Extension Services	MAVIM, Maitri trainings and demonstrations
Farm Practices	Fodder cultivation, inter-cultivation, grazing, chaffing, Stall feeding, vaccination, deworming, Milking and distribution, treatment, Hay and silage making, concentrate feed preparation
Contact	7588613162, 9049777299
Fodder Varieties	Paragrass, Yashwant, DHN-6, CO5, IGFRI7, Pechchong-1, Dashrath, Mulberry, Multicut Jawar, Maize, Sudan grass
Success Story	Produced 1200 MT of green fodder and 35 MT of dry fodder. Two bunker silage units of 100 MT capacity built. Preservation of pure germplasm of Red Kandhari cattle carried out exclusively at this center. Supply of pure germplasm of Osmanabadi goat and Deccani sheep to farmers, SHGs, and private farmers. Propagation of different fodder varieties in Marathwada region through fodder stump supply. Maintaining a fodder crop museum with eleven fodder crops.

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