Veterinary College and Research Institute, Orathanadu

The Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education was started in April 2013 with an objective to teach undergraduate students in the aspects of extension education, rural sociology, dissemination of various livestock farming technologies from the research station to the field by using various audio-visual teaching methods and aids, demonstrations of scientific livestock and poultry farm activities, rural development, adoption and diffusion of innovation on various extension programmes, importance of livestock in livelihood of the farmers, technical know-how to prepare livestock projects, transfer of farmers problems to the research station, etc,. This department serves as a remarkable link between the research wing of the college and farming community through organizing various extension activities and programmes. The department also carries out timely need-based extension research and organizes extension programmes for the benefit of the livestock farmers.

The thrust areas of research in Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education and Economics is being undertaken by the department like evaluation and adoption of farming technologies, identification of constraints faced by the farmers, transfer of various scientific technologies, information need assessment, effectiveness of teaching methods, evaluation of development programmes, PRA techniques, use of Information and Communication Technology tools in animal husbandry, human resource management, training and development, indigenous technical knowledge, budget and project analysis of livelihood schemes, marketing of livestock and products, production related economic studies etc.