The United States Department of Agriculture-funded Food Systems Fellowship Grant programme was inaugurated at a function held at Madras Veterinary College here on Thursday.
Giving details about the programme, R. Prabakaran, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Veterinary Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) said six students along with two faculty members from the Centre of Veterinary Medicine Michigan State University (CVM MSU) will visit milk production societies and poultry farms in two districts for a fortnight.
They will interact with the farmers and learn techniques of poultry farming and rearing milch cows. Apart from this TANUVAS had done research on animal production system, which would be demonstrated to the students. The USDA had allocated a grant of 1.5 lakh US dollars for the programme, he said.
Inaugurating the programme, Andrew T. Simkin, Consul General, US Consulate General in Chennai, said there had been advancements in veterinary science. Describing the fellowship programme as a people-to-people tie up, Mr. Simkin said more such programmes were needed.
Around the world there were reports of inflation and providing nourishment to the global population was a major challenge faced by the world community. Fellowship programmes of this kind would help in providing the required nourishment, he added.
Speaking on the occasion, Daniel Grooms, Associate Chair, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, CVM MSU, said the fellowship was a unique programme through which the students from his university would be exposed to veterinary and animal agriculture practices in India.
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