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Animal Nutrition-Preparedness to Combat Challenges
Location: NASC Complex, New Delhi, India
Date: 14 - 17 February 2009
Organisation:
Animal Nutrition Association
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The conference will focus on identification of future challenges in animal nutrition, quantification of their potential and searching for methods and resources to combat them. Looking at the quantum and seriousness of the topic, an international interaction amongst the researchers and teachers of animal nutrition and allied subjects, feed technologists, industrialists and the livestock farmers was envisaged and this conference will be a step forward in that direction.
Animal Nutrition Association (ANA) is an umbrella organization representing more than 700 life members from animal nutrition and associated disciplines and boasts of equitable representation from students, researchers, academia and industry. Established in 1992, the association strives to serve the cause of livestock production in general and animal nutrition in particular through organization of conferences and workshops at regular intervals, publication of research journal Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology and recognition of scientific excellence through awards.
Key objectives
Globally, livestock production is becoming agriculture's most economically important sub-sector, with demand in developing countries for animal foods projected to double over the next twenty years. Meat and dairy products are typical high value goods that may serve as engines of development for local and regional markets and economies.
However, future livestock production is threatened by climate change, land degradation, water pollution and above all feed shortages. These factors have put forward challenges for the livestock researchers and farmers to produce more from less in a sustainable and eco-friendly manner. In any livestock farming system, the major economic inputs are in the form of feeds, fodders and additives in addition to management costs. Physiologically too, the robustness of the livestock depends upon balanced nutrition and proper supply of nutrients at the proper age of animals.
Therefore the efforts to combat challenges of livestock production are concentrated around animal nutritionists, rumen microbiologists, feed technologists, physiologists, biotechnologists, management personnel, health scientists and extension workers. Their concerted efforts will lead to innovative ideas and approaches to solve the impending problems and extend the knowledge generated to the end users i.e. livestock farmers, feed industry and livestock product manufacturers.
The present world conference is aimed at bringing together all the stake holders at one platform and solving some of the above problems for the well being of livestock and mankind.
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