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AIC organise international workshop on “Sustainable Livestock Production under Impending Climate Change”

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An effort to strengthen ties with international institutes with the common goal of sustainable livestock production

Australia-India Council (AIC) sponsored two-day international workshop on “Sustainable Livestock Production under Impending Climate Change” has been organised at IVRI.

The inaugural session was started with the welcome address by the co-convener of the program Gyanendra Singh. He stressed the effect of heat stress on various aspects of animal health and production and strategies to ameliorate the heat stress in livestock by nutritional supplementation. Further he emphasised the importance of workshop, that it is an effort to strengthen the ties with international institutes with the common goal of sustainable livestock production under the ongoing climate change scenario.

S S Chauhan, Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne in Australia and the project’s principal investigator, stressed the importance of collaborative research in dealing with the effects of climate change on livestock production. He also talked about the necessity for applying genomic tools for identifying thermo-tolerant breeds specific for the localities and developing for sustainable production.

Triveni Dutt, the director of ICAR-IVRI, elaborates extensively on the steps required to ensure food security for the growing population, the involvement of the younger generation in collaborative research opportunities, and the inputs and efforts of ICAR-IVRI in various farmer awareness activities related to climate change. He also pointed out the importance of climate-smart livestock production and mass awareness of the impending climate change. The inauguration event concluded with a vote of thanks.

In the following technical sessions, the eminent speakers from India and Australia shared their knowledge on the impact of heat stress, advanced tools for the detection of heat stress and the ameliorative strategies for maintaining sustainable livestock production. The different approaches for ameliorating heat stress ie., adjusting the microenvironment, nutritional supplements and genetic modification of livestock were discussed.

The key speakers discussed about the development of climate resilient animals need better understanding of physiology of native cattle and buffalo breeds through genetic tools and clear understanding of global gene expression and proteomics profiling of cattle and buffalo in heat stress condition as well in their specific thermal comfort zone can pave the way to increase the production performance.

Further, the remote sensing for animal heat stress surveillance, the carbon foot print and the mineral supplementation for ameliorating heat stress were discussed. Through this workshop, the University of Melbourne in Australia and the ICAR-IVRI will continue to enhance and explore their bilateral research collaboration efforts that will benefit the students and researchers work toward sustainable livestock production.

Hari Abdul Samad, Scientist, P&C Division. More than 300 researchers and students from India and Australia actively participated in this hybrid-mode workshop.

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