1. Market Led Extension
Strategy for Livestock
Production
Dr. R.P. Singh
Director Extension Education and
Director SAMETI-Uttarakhand

2. Mission
 Facilitateneed based knowledge in
livestock and poultry sector in ongoing
and emerging areas to support
productivity increase, reducing the gap
between potential and actual yield and
to prepare the country to face the
challenges of globalization.

3. Thrust Areas
 Development and improvement of
processing technologies for value
addition, shelf life enhancement and
quality assurance of livestock products.
 Dietetic livestock products for better
health.
 Livestock production economics and
marketing.

4. Strengths
 Manpower
 Infrastructure
Farm and animals
Laboratories
Specialized facilities
Human Resource Development
National and International Collaboration

5. Achievements
 Crossbred strains of cattle, Karan Swiss, Karan Fries
and Frieswal for high milk production
 Layer productivity enhanced to 300 eggs / per year /
per bird
 Broiler body weight increased to 1.5 kg in 35 days
 Graded Murrah buffaloes with 2200 kg milk yield
per/lactation
 Dual purpose poultry strains for rural farming
 Conservation techniques for various livestock and
poultry germplasms
 Improved strains of sheep for fine wool, carpet wool
and mutton
 Shelter management for small ruminants

6. Animal Health
 Eradication of Rinderprest in India
 Indigenous technology for foot and mouth
disease vaccine production
 Live attenuated vaccine for sheep and goat
plague (PPR)
 Diagnosed avian influenza and controlled it by
continuous surveillance
 Vaccine against avian influenza using
indigenous strains
 Technical and scientific support to National
FMD control programme

7. In Animal Products
Technology
 Low cholesterol ghee
 Mango Lassi with long shelf life
 Ghee, fortified with herbs
 Indigenous technology for production of rasmalai,
kulfi, kheer mix, gulab jamun mix with longer shelf
life
 Adopted and modified traditional milk products
technology like kunda for commercial production
 Various poultry meat products like chicken
chunkalona from spent hen, chicken idli, nuggets,
patties, pickle and kababs

8. Commercialization of
technologies
 Area specific mineral mixture for different agro-
ecological zones and complete feed block using non
conventional feed resources.
 Goat plague (PPR) vaccine
 FMD and HS adjoined oil vaccine.
 Equine influenza vaccine.
 Thermostable IBD vaccine.
 EHP 1 vaccine.
 Diagnostic kits for FMD surveillance
 By pass protein technology for high yielding cattle
 Hormonal modulation for increasing egg production