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Department of Animal
Production
Rajasthan College of Agriculture |
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Overview: |
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The
Department of Animal Production earlier named as Animal
Husbandry came into being in 1964 as a result of bifurcation
of the then Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
From the inception of the Department in 1956 when the
College was founded the Department catered the need of
Under-graduate teaching in Animal Science and Dairying. A
joint Post-graduate Programme was instituted in 1964 which
continued till 1966 when a separate programme in Animal
Husbandry was started. In 1975 the Post-graduate programme
was recorganised to offer specialization in Dairy Husbandry
which later changed to Animal Husbandry as per need of the
State. The Under-graduate teaching was extended to the
College of Dairy Science and College of Home Science from
the year 1980 and 1985, respectively. The Ph. D. Programme
by course work was started in the year 2000. |
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In addition
to teaching and research the Department associated itself
with the extension activities of the Directorate of
Extension Education in transmission of research finding to
the farmers through various training programmes with the
start of the Department. Two farms viz. Livestock and
Poultry have been attached with it for teaching, research
and extension purpose. |
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The
Post-graduate students are mainly employed in the
Agriculture Universities as Teacher, Subject Matter
Specialist in Extension and as research Scientists. In
addition, they are also employed as Officer in Nationalized
Banks, Military Dairy Farms, Dairy Federation, Animal
Husbandry Department in Education Department as School and
College Teachers and some of them are self employed also. |
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Facilities: |
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Two well
managed Instructional Farms viz. Livestock and Poultry Farms
are maintained by the Department. On Livestock Farm herd of
250 Gir, Tharparkar, Crossbred (HF), Jersey and Red Dane of
different age and sex groups is continuing, the weight
average of the farm obtained is in between 7 to 9 its. |
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One Self
Sufficient Scheme of 14 crossbred cows is running
successfully on Livestock Farm and the Scheme has
shown reasonable profit and a part of the
profit revenue have been deposited in the University
Fund. |
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Stock of 2 broiler
strain have been introduced on the Poultry Farm of
the Department brought from the CARI, Izzatnagar,
Bareilly (UP). |
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The Department has
good classrooms as well as there are there well
equiped labs. One Nutritional Lab. another
Physiology Lab. and Artificial Insemination Lab. and
another at Poultry Farm. In all these labs. teaching
UG, PG and Ph. D. facilities available for
conducting Practical classes and necessary research
in aspects of Nutritional analysis and other works. |
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Faculty: |
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Name
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Specialization |
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1 |
Dr. O. P. Patodia,
Assoc. Professor |
Acting Head instead Asso. Production |
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Dr. B.P. Singh, Assoc.
Professor |
Nutrition and
Management |
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Shri M.C. Mathur,
Asstt. Professor |
Management of pet
animals |
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