Department of Animal Science
Livestock production, nutrition, breeding and dairy — the half of a Madhesh farm that is not a crop.
On most holdings here, the animal is the savings account.
Livestock is not a sideline on a smallholding in Madhesh. Cattle and buffalo carry draught, milk and manure; goats and poultry convert what is otherwise waste into cash that arrives between harvests. The department teaches the production side of that: feeding and nutrition, breeding and reproduction, housing and management, dairy and poultry production, and the economics of each.
Fodder is where most of the work lands. A holding of two bighas cannot spare land for it, so the department works on crop residues, fodder trees, seasonal green fodder fitted between crops, and rations built from what a household already has rather than from what a feed mill sells.
Livestock production
Cattle, buffalo, goat and poultry production and management.
Nutrition and fodder
Rations from crop residues, fodder trees and seasonal green fodder.
Breeding
Breeding programmes, reproduction and herd improvement.
Dairy and products
Milk production, handling, hygiene and small-scale processing.