Kum Shobha Karandlaje, Hon’ble MoS for Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare inaugurated the ‘Farmers-cum-Students Hostel’ and ‘Community Hall’ at ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (ICAR-NIANP), Bengaluru on 11th June 2022, in the august presence of Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, the Secretary, DARE, Government of India, and the Director General, ICAR, New Delhi.
During her address, the MoS reiterated the significance of livestock on livelihood security vis a vis rural economy and given the analogy: ‘Crop and livestock are two eyes of human being’; close coordination between the two departments will help in the development and rural prosperity. She applauded the green campus of NIANP in the heart of Bengaluru city. Complimenting the achievements of ICAR-NIANP on emerging challenges of livestock sector, she urged the scientist for technology transfer, greater coordination with state livestock and allied departments, capacity development of veterinary professionals to fulfil the dream of Hon’ble Prime Minister to India in doubling the farmers’ income.
In his address, Dr T Mohaptra, DG ICAR highlighted the ICAR-NIANP’s achievements in making it as an ‘Institute of Relevance’ on several emerging fronts. He applauded the entire team of ICAR-NIANP for developing required infrastructure facilities, creating state-of-the-art research facilities on climate change, publishing research articles in high impact journals, playing critical roles in doubling farmers income, diversifying research on emerging challenges of livestock sector, and creation of BSL-II facility CLAR, for the evaluation of biofortified varieties released by the ICAR institutes. As ICAR is working on Prime Minister’s vision to eradicate hidden hunger and malnutrition by releasing biofortified varieties, their evaluation using laboratory animals at ICAR-NIANP will further strengthen the research projects on biofortification.
Earlier, Dr. Raghavendra Bhatta, Director of ICAR-NIANP, delivered the welcome speech and highlighted the institute vision, activities, achievements, publication, patents, commercialized technologies etc.
On this occasion, a ‘Buffalo Bull Fertility Diagnostic Chip SpermXFert’, oral feed supplement for addressing transportation stress ‘Herbal TransCare’ and a bilingual (Hindi and Kannada) publication on ‘Farmer Friendly Technologies’ were released.
The event was attended by Dr Rajendra Prasad, Vice Chancellor, UAS (B), Dr Bhaskar (ADG) ICAR, Dr Sudha Mysore, CEO, AgrInnovate, the Directors and Heads of Bengaluru based ICAR institutes, and regional stations, Chief Engineer, CPWD Mr SN Rai, former Director and staffs of ICAR-NIANP, Engineers from CPWD.
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