Presiding over the concluding function of the twentieth training programme organized for the farmers of Aurangabad and Sitamari districts of Bihar State that concluded here today Dr. Kumar as chief guest said that there is immense potential of improving milk production further in Bihar State and based on the interaction with the Directorate of Dairy Development, Patna, Bihar since December 2006 till November 2007, the KVK could train 600 dairy farmers including 14 farm women from 21 districts of Bihar State.

     Director said that there is need that the farmers should realize the concept and significance of scientific dairy farming in a holistic manner and they must adopt the technologies pertaining to breeding, feeding, health care and management so to improve their herd productivity. He added that the farmers whose have been trained here should adopt and also share the learnt technologies amongst other dairy farmers of different dairy cooperative societies of their districts.

    Dr. Dalip K. Gosain, Senior Scientist and programme coordinator for all these 20 training programmes of the KVK, NDRI said that each programme was specifically developed based on the resource availabilities and needs of the dairy farmers of different dairy cooperative societies of Bihar State. He added that the scientists and technical officers of the institute imparted training to improve the knowledge and skill of the trainees.