National Dairy Research Institute

1. Student Ready Program
An Overview
NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
KARNAL,HARYANA-132001
BISHAL BARMAN
B.Tech (DAIRY TECHNOLOGY)

2. CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CATTLEYARD VISIT
NANNU AGRO VISIT
TAPRANA VISIT
CSSRI VISIT
VARIOUS TOPICS COVERED IN CLASSES
TRAINING IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF CATTLEYARD
CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION
 Student Ready Program is a training program for one month duration for the students pursuing
their bachelor’s in Dairy Technology.
 This training program involves working both physically and mentally in different cases.
 We were assigned different topics to work on after dividing our total strength to seven different
groups respectively.
 We were given lectures by some of the guest faculties as well as the faculties of NDRI to have a
brief knowledge about some basic knowledge in the field of animal husbandry and dairy.

4. NDRI CATTLE YARD VISIT
 NDRI Cattle yard has more than a thousand animals including Cattles, Buffaloes and
Goats.
 It has three indigenous breeds of cow viz.
a. Sahiwal
b. Gir
c. Tharparkar
 NDRI also has two cross breeds of cattle viz.
 a. Karan Fries
b. Karan Swiss
 Murrah breed of buffalo. Also regarded as the “Proud Of Haryana”.
 Two goat breeds(cross breeds)
a. Alpine Beetal
b. Saanen Beetal

5. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION ABOUT AN INDIGENOUS CATTLE BREED
SAHIWAL CATTLE
 Animals are heavy with symmetrical long, heavy body conformation with change of color to red from brown.
 Color can range from reddish brown through to the more predominant red.
 Intercalving period is 475 days.
 The lactation milk yield and lactation length is 2325 kg and 315 days, respectively.

6. MURRAH
 Murrah is the best dairy breed of buffalo in the world.
 Distributed in Rohtak, Hisar, Jind, Karnal districts of Haryana, and Nabha, Patiala districts in
Punjab.
 Their typical color is jet black, soft, thin, glistening black, almost hairless skin and curled
horns .
 The average age at first calving is 1550 days.
 The lactation milk yield, lactation length and fat% are 1890 kg, 313 days and 7%,
respectively.

7. NANNU AGRO VISIT
 Located in Kaithal District of Haryana.
 It was more or like a small cattle yard with not more than cows.
 It had a well planned and designed waste management system.
 It had two biogas plants to induce methane production to use is at a fuel
 After daily collection of milk they prepare their products such as khoa, ghee,
butter by their own with the help of machinery such as cream separator pre-
installed.
 They sold their products in the market directly by home delivering it in a
daily affair.

8. SNAPSHOTS

9. TAPRANA VILLAGE VISIT
 Taprana is a village located outskirts of Karnal city.
 We met to a group of people who has a self help group of milk and milk products.
 Under the training of NDRI, they are now successful in their milk business.
 We were divided in three groups to analyse the situation of animal keeping in that
locality.
 We quizzed them about various safety measures taken up by them ro draw milk from
cow and also safety measures related to Animal Husbandry.

10. CSSRI VISIT
 ICAR-CSSRI stands for Central Soil & Salinity Research Institute.
 We visited the farm section of CSSRI which included Power tiller, Raised bed planter, Seed
Drill, Haramba Thresher.
 We also carefully observed different herbs and shrubs grown such as Henna, Tulsi, Chameli
etc.
 We were also taken to the plot where weather is forecasted with the help of meteorological
instrument.
 We had the pleasure of tasting the guavas grown from organic farming.

11. VARIOUS IMPORTANT TOPICS COVERED IN CLASSES
 Methods to assess raw milk quality by Rajan Sharma Sir.
 Cloning of Buffaloes by Dr.Singla Sir.
 Embryo Transplant of animals by Dr.Singla Sir.
 Endo and Ecto-parasites control.
 Important Dairy Breeds of India by P.K Singh Sir.
 Ration Formulation By Nitin Tyagi Sir.

12. Various Diseases in Cattle and Buffaloes by Rubina Ma'am.
Milk Procurement System by Gunvant Sir.
Economics of Milk Production by Dr.Smita Sirohi Ma’am.
Fodder Cultivation by Dr.B.S Meena Sir.
Peri-Urban dairy system by Dr.Gopal Sankhla Sir.
Silage Making by Dr.Rakesh Sir.

13. TRAINING IN VARIOUS SECTIONS
VIDEOGRAPHY CLASS
 This class was taken by Dr.H.R Meena Sir along with the official photographer of
NDRI.
 This class was beneficial for us to complete our assigned video of our respective
topic.
CLASS ON POSTER MAKING
 This class was taken by Dr.H.R Meena Sir.
 It helped us to prepare our final poster
 A poster should convey a message without any hesitation to the reader.

14. ANIMAL HEALTH COMPLEX
 Animal health complex deals with various health problems related to cattle.
 We were guided by Dr.Raju Sir who is a veterinarian.
 We treated the infected cows and me and my group also plastered a broken leg of a cow.
Fodder Section
 We inspected the feed and concentrate mixture given to the cow.
 Before fodder supply to the buffaloes and cattle, chopping is done for its better digestibility.
 We were guided by Rajveer Sir.
CALF SECTION
 We feeded the calves with milk.
 We supplied Antiseptic in the dehorning wounds of the calves.

15. MILKING SECTION
 Milking in NDRI of Cross-breeds and indigenous breeds is done three times a day.
 NDRI has three milking sections
1. Hand milking.
2. Semi-Automatic.
3. Automatic.
 Daily milking of more than 300 animals is done.
 Milking of buffaloes is done three times a day.
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION SECTION
 Artificial Insemination of cattle's is done in the cattle yard from collected semen
from ABRC.
 Dr.Subhash Chand Sir totally demonstrated the procedure by artificially
inseminating a female cow in heat with a straw of 0.25ml

16. CONCLUSION
 Student ready program helped us to gain an extra knowledge in the field of dairy.
 The Group formation and the assigned tasks resulted in cooperative fruitful results.
 This training program helped us to gain a handful amount of knowledge in the fields of Fodder Cultivation,
Animal Husbandry, Various diseases related to cattle.
 We are also grateful to our trainee head Dr.A.K Singh Sir for his immense support and hard work to make
this training program a successful one.
 Our summer vacations were utilized in a fruitful way.