Webinar under ‘Bharat Ka Amrut Mahotsav’ on the theme "Animal Health and productivity”

 

In commemoration of India's 75 years of Independence as Bharat Ka Amrut Mahotsav, ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Goa conducted webinar on "Animal Health and productivity” on June 5th, 2021 on virtual platform. The topic of the webinar was ‘Small scale dairy processing for doubling farmer’s income’ which was presented by Dr. Archana Chandran, Assistant professor, College of Dairy Science and Technology, KVASU, Pookode, Kerala. Dr Archana Chandran is a master trainer under the program ‘Pradhan Mantri Micro-food Processing Enterprise (PMFME)’ in Kerala and have trained number of master trainers in small scale dairy processing aspects.

Dr. R.S Rajkumar, Scientist (LPT) welcomed all the participants and gave brief background of the speaker. Dr. Parveen Kumar, Director, ICAR-CCARI, Goa, explained the objective of lecture series conducted by ICAR institutes to mark the India's 75 years of Independence besides the importance of animal health in increasing the productivity and net returns of the dairy farmers and need for small scale dairy processing in the current scenario of Covid-19, where the demand for fresh milk/meat has reduced drastically specially in Goa. The programme was attended by 54 participants from Odisha, Kerala, West Bengal and Goa which included farmers, woman entrepreneurs, scientists, subject matter specialists, technical staff of the institute and outside.

Dr Archana’s presentation included dairy processing methodologies, preparation of  various products such as Ghee, fermented products- shrikand, curd, probiotics, yogurt etc.  She also showed videos of preparation and setting of processing plants for small dairy processing.