Career Opportunities in Veterinary Science with special focus in India (Covers different professional fields/disciplines that a graduate can choose after completion of B.V.Sc&A.H).

1. Presented by
Dr. Prakashkumar Rathod
Associate Professor and Head (i/c),
Livestock Research and Information Centre (Deoni),
Katti Tugaon, Bidar, Karnataka
Email: prakashkumarkr@gmail.com

2. Who is your role model ?

3. Do you know ?
Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram (Plant science)
Dr. M Gupta (Fisheries expert)
Dr. Verghese Kurien (White Revolution)
Dr. M S Swaminathan (Green Revolution)

4. Agricultural Science: Versatile !
 Agricultural Science
 Home science
 Horticulture
 Veterinary and Animal Science
 Dairy science
 Fisheries
 Natural Resource Management
 Wildlife sciences
 Environment and ecology
 Food technology and processing

5. Different Fields/ Focus Areas
 Health Care/Breeding
 Teaching
 Research
 Extension/ Development
 Administration/ Defense
 Social Service
 Quality Management
 Higher Education
 Entrepreneurship
 Lets discuss…

7.  Veterinary officer or VAS in State Department of Animal
Husbandry and Veterinary Services
 Semi-Government or private dairy firms like Milk
Federation/Union, Mother Dairy, Reliance Dairy, etc.
 Corporate/private firms like Pedigree, Suguna poultry,
Venkateshwar hatcheries, pharmaceutical companies etc.

9.  Act as a livestock/pet animal breeder (Even for Livestock
conservation)
 Private hospital or private clinical services for the rural
and urban community in India and abroad
 As an veterinarian in stud farm/equine management in
India and abroad.
 Meat production, processing and marketing firms like
Fregario Conserva Allana Ltd, etc.,

10. Days to Come ?

11.  Teaching profession
 Develop program, curriculum and activities related to
agriculture/A.H for youth adults and graduates
 Working in classroom, outdoors with experiments and
hands-on activities

12. Teaching in SAUs/SVUs

14. Research…..Get associated with ….
As a scientist in India you can get associated
with organizations of international repute –
• ICAR (IVRI/NDRI…….)
• DST/ DBT/ICMR/ CSIR
• ISRO (www.isro.gov.in)
• BARC (www.barc.ernet.in)
• Indian Statistical Institute (www.isical.in)
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
• Tata Institute of Social Science
• IISc (www.iisc.ernet.in)
• DRDO (www.drdo.org)
• IISERs

15. Scientists

16.  Job/research opportunities in ICAR/ DST/ DBT/
ICMR institutes

20. Pharmaceutical industries

24. 15 Global Research-for-Development
(R4D) Centers across the world
CGIAR

25. ICRISAT

26. High levels of poverty, malnutrition and
environmental degradation Covers 6.5 million sq. km.
Across 55countries
with 2 billion people
of which 644 million
are the poorest of the poor
Semi-Arid Tropics
ILRI, Nairobi
IFPRI, Washington DC

27.  Agricultural/A.H Extension Specialist
 Organize and conduct extension activities to
advise and instruct farmers and individuals
 Communication skills and interest in helping
others would be an added advantage

28. Managers and Financial Specialist
 Farm Consultant
 Audits and appraises agricultural business and makes
suggestions on improvements
 Agricultural/Livestock Economist
 Banks and insurance agencies (Field officers)
 Data analysis in economics activity, economic confidence
levels and consumer attitudes
 Accuracy and Communication Skills important

32.  Agricultural/Livestock Extension Expert
 MANAGE, Hyderabad
 NAARM, Hyderabad
 NIRD, Hyderabad
 EEIs across India

33.  Poverty alleviation and rural development
programmes in collaboration with the government or
other agencies

34. Competitive examinations like UPSC, State Public
Service Commission and serve as administrators

39. Central and State Governments
 Paramilitary forces BSF/ITBP
 Advisors to Government
 Commissioner/Asst. Commissioners
 Nodal officers to ministries

40. Social Service Professionals
 Non-Governmental Organizations
 Serving the society in different roles

44. Foreign Affairs Officials
 Assist in planning and implementing foreign
affairs program to promote agriculture & allied
sector
 Import and export of livestock products
 Travel frequently and work out of an office
building
Food and Drug Inspector
•Maintain grading standards on food and drug
products for the purpose of ensuring consumer
safety and fair pricing

45.  Food science and Technology
 As a researchers in research institutes, food industry
etc.
 Food safety, quality control and public health control

46.  Food processing and
 Value added Milk and
Meat Products
 Leather industry
 Byproducts utilization
 Hatcheries

47.  Opportunities by getting MBA or higher qualification from
institutes like IRMA, NAARM, IIM’s etc.

51.  Scope in wildlife and zoo management
 Dr KK Sarma, Elephant Man of Asia-
Prestigious Padmashree award 2020

53. Higher Education
 Food technology, life sciences,
 Biotechnology, Bioinformatics,
 Statistics, extension, economics
 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,
 Pharmacogenomics,
 Environmental Science,
 Forensic science,
 Clinical research,
 Food technology & processing,
 Molecular biology & genomics,
 Genetic engineering.

57. • Development of commercial dairy/sheep/goat/poultry/ piggery farm
• Buffalo calves rearing for meat purpose
• Commercial dry cattle/ buffalo rearing units
• Livestock input industry
• Commercial feed and fodder production
• Commercial livestock first aid clinics
• Organic livestock production units
• Livestock product post harvest processing units
• Organic waste management and entrepreneurship generation
Livestock Entrepreneurship

59. Marketing, Merchandising & Sales Executives
 Products Representatives
 Develops sales and marketing strategies for selling
agricultural & allied products
 Communicate effectively and enjoy travelling
 Agricultural/A.H Equipment Dealer

60.  Agri-clinics and other entrepreneurial opportunities
 Act as consultant/advisor for private firms and also
involve in patent/copyright related issues
 Concept very innovative in veterinary field

61.  Opportunities in production, processing and marketing of
inputs like poultry/livestock feed, AI services etc.
 Feed and fodder supply

63. Osmanabadi Goat breeders Association

64. Rearing of Breeding Males
• Availability of good quality breed of livestock viz., cattle,
buffalo, goat, pig or poultry.
• Keeping in view the importance of the breeding
services, it can be taken up commercially
• Murrah Breeding
Bulls- Yuvraj and
Sultan
• Yuvraj produces
45,000 doses and
Sultan produces
54,000 doses per
year

65. Indian Broiler Industry

66.  Harland Sanders : Born on 9 September 1890
 KFC-‘Kentucky Fried Chicken
 At the age of 40, started his first permanent job at fuel filling station at North
Corbin
 Out of his cooking habit, he started his experiments
1009 times, he heard “ NO” for his fried chicken
 At the age of 62, started first KFC in 1952 at Utah, United States
 Today, KFC is the second largest restaurant chain in the World with 22621
outlets in 123 country. (2018)
 The first Indian KFC was started in Bangalore in June 1995
 In Dec. 2016, 400 + KFC outlets in India

67. Meat On Wheels- Bidar
COVID-19

68. Each entrepreneur has his unique story

69. Funding/Financial Support
 Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme
 Dairy Processing & Infrastructure Development Fund
 Fodder Development Scheme
 National Dairy Plan Phase I
 National Livestock Mission
So on……
 National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (NABARD) will be
the Nodal Agency for implementation of the scheme.
 Commercial Banks, Co-operative Banks and Regional Rural and
urban Banks, State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development
bank and such other institutions which are eligible for refinance from
NABARD will implement the scheme.
 The scheme is open to organized as well as unorganized sector.
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70. Knowledge, Skill and Attitude counts...