Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal

DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXTENSION EDUCATION

The department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education started functioning since inception of the college on 14.06.1985. The mandate of the department is to undertake teaching, research and extension activities. The Ph.D. and M.V.Sc. programmes were started in the year 1995 and 2004 respectively.

The department serves as a notable link between the college and farming community through organizing various extension activities. In addition, queries raised by the farmers are answered directly by office calls, telephone calls and also through social media. Guided visits are also conducted regularly for entrepreneurs, school and college students to livestock and poultry farm complex for providing exposure on various livestock enterprises and technologies. Training and capacity building programmes are organized to impart knowledge and skills to the farmers, farm women, entrepreneurs and extension personnel in livestock and poultry farming. Further, the department is also involved in arrangement of mass contact programmes, farm radio school, radio talk, television talk, seminar, workshop, interaction forum for dissemination of latest animal husbandry innovations or techniques. The important events are documented and archived.

Objectives

Undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate education
Conducting need based research
Transmitting scientific knowledge to farmers through various extension programmes

Education

The department offers undergraduate programme, M.V.Sc., and Ph.D., degree programmes in Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education.

Undergraduate Programme

Currently, the department offers a course on "Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education (3+1)" for the third professional year students as per MSVE 2016 Regulations.

M.V.Sc. Programme

S.No	Course	Course Title
1	EXT 601	Development Perspectives of Extension Education
2	EXT 602	Communication for Livestock Development
3	EXT 603	Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations
4	EXT 604	Programme Planning and Evaluation
5	EXT 605	Research Methodology
6	EXT 606	Social Psychology and Group Dynamics
7	EXT 607	Livestock Entrepreneurship
8	EXT 608	Human Resource Management in Animal Husbandry Sector
9	EXT 609	Gender Empowerment and Livestock Development
10	EXT 610	Farm Journalism
11	SSS 600	Statistics for Social Sciences

Ph.D. Programme

S.No	Course	Course Title
1	EXT 801	Organisational leadership and management
2	EXT 802	Recent trends in research techniques in Social Sciences
3	EXT 803	Training for development
4	EXT 804	Policy and regulations in Livestock Sector
5	EXT 805	Educational Technology
6	EXT 806	Dynamics of Social Change
7	EXT 807	Monitoring and Evaluation of Livestock Development programmes
8	EXT 808	Theory constructions in Social Sciences
9	EXT 809	Facilitation of Development
10	EXT 810	Managing Extension Organisations

Research

Completed M.V.Sc. Research

S.No.	Title	Researcher	Year
1	Role of Poultry Input Dealers in Transfer of Technology	Dr.S.B.Komathi	2006
2	Effectiveness of Compact Disc (CD) Lesson on Clean Milk Production Techniques among Milkmen	Dr.J.Malliga	2008
3	Constraints in Broiler Contract Farming	Dr.L.Arun	2008
4	An Analysis on Job Ambitions of Veterinary Students in Tamil Nadu	Dr.R.Geetha	2009
5	Information dynamics in transfer of dairy farming technologies	Dr.R.Gopi	2011
6	Impact assessment of Namakkal Chicken -1 on livelihood of rural farmers	Dr.P.Bharathkumar	2012
7	Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) among undergraduate veterinary students in Southern states of India	Dr.C.Manivannan	2014
8	Analysis of dairy contract farming system in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu	Dr.S.R. Kalaivani	2015
9	Analysis of Commercial Desi Bird Venture in Namakkal District	Dr.R. Baby Usha	2016
10	Technological Impact of Fodder Innovations among smallholder dairy farmers in Namakkal District	Dr.O.S. Sangutha	2016
11	Goat farming practices in north western zone of Tamil Nadu with special reference to intensification	Dr.C Ramkumar	2017
12	Content analysis of Information Technology (IT) enabled pull type livestock advisory services in Tamil Nadu	Dr.M Deepika	2019
13	Vulnerability of Livestock farmers to climate change in Tamil Nadu	Dr.K Oviya	2021
14	Assessment of women empowerment through scientific interventions in livestock based livelihood at Namakkal district	Dr.B. Prabhavathi	2026
15	Assessment of knowledge and adoption behaviour of dairy farmers with special reference to prevention of milk fever in Bovines	Dr.V.Surya	2026

Completed Ph.D. research

S.No.	Title	Researcher	Year
1	Estimation of Technological Needs of Poultry Farmers	Dr.P.Mathialagan	1998
2	Man Power Planning of Veterinary Personnel in Tamil Nadu	Dr.N.K.Sudeepkumar	1999
3	Women in Small scale Fisheries: Their Status, Problems and Prospects	Mr.N.V.Sujathkumar	2000
4	Impact of DANIDA - Pudukottai Livestock Development Project on Target Farmers	Dr.P.Kumaravel	2000
5	Effectiveness of Training Methods in Fisherman in Southern Coastal Districts of T.N.	Mr.K.Veeraputhiran	2000
6	Adoption Behaviour in Marine Fishermen	Mr.K.Ravaneeswaran	2001
7	Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Farmwomen in Livestock Enterprise	Dr.N.Narmatha	2001
8	Livestock Farming Systems in Tamil Nadu	Dr.A.Manivannan	2008
9	A functional analysis of Krishi Vigyan Kendras in Tamil Nadu and Kerala	Dr.Bimal.P.Bashir	2014
10	Transition of smallholder dairy farming in mixed crop livestock farming system of Tamil Nadu	Dr.D.Thirunavukkarasu	2017
11	Attitude of livestock farmers towards climate change and adaptation measures to mitigate its effect	Dr.V.Uma	2017
12	Exploration of climate change effect and amelioration strategies in Salem Black goat farming system	Dr.C.Ramkumar	2021
13	Impact of TANUVAS frontline extension System in Tamil Nadu	Dr.M.Jothilakshmi	2022
14	Empirical assessment of adoption of TANUVAS innovations	Dr.S.Karthikeyan	2022
15	An exploratory study on the climate change vulnerabilities faced by dairy farmers in selected districts of Tamil Nadu	Dr.R.Sangameswaran	2025

Completed externally funded research projects

S.No.	Title of the project	Year	Funding agency	Principal Investigator
1	Empowerment of Rural Women through adoption of various biotechnological techniques in livestock and poultry	2004-06	DBT, New Delhi	Dr.P.Mathialagan
2	ICAR Network project on “Enhancing Livelihood of Rural Women through Livestock Production”	2009-12	ICAR, New Delhi	Dr.N.Narmatha
3	Sustaining the Livelihood of Rural Weaker Sections through Innovative Scientific Dairy Farming Technologies of Vellore and Cuddalore District in Tamil Nadu	2015-18	DST, New Delhi	Dr.N.Narmatha
4	Creation of employment through livestock enterprise to mitigate migration among the tribal farmers of Namakkal District	2023-24	ICAR-TSP, New Delhi	Dr.N.Akila
5	Development Refinement and Validation of Complementary Livestock Extension Model (CLEM) involving grassroots level Change Agents	2023-24	DHAN Foundation, Madurai	Dr.D.Thirunavukkarasu
6	Development Refinement and Validation of Complementary Livestock Extension Model (CLEM) involving grassroots level Change Agents among Water User Associations(WUA)	2024-25	DHAN Foundation, Madurai and COODU Karamadai	Dr.D.Thirunavukkarasu

Completed sub-projects

S.No.	Title	Year
1	Impact analysis of trainers training programme	2002
2	Adoption level of dairy farmers in clean milk production practices	2008
3	Assessment of socio-economic and psychological problems associated with poor adoption of livestock enterprise	2009
4	Content analysis of Kalnadai Kathir	2011
5	Status quo of intensive goat farms of Tamil Nadu	2014
6	Scientometric analysis of post graduate theses of Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal	2017
7	Impact of experiential learning programme in feed manufacturing technology on the entrepreneurial qualities of students	2020

Ongoing externally funded research projects

Title of the project	Year	Funding agency	Principal Investigator
Evaluation of a herbal product as a therapeutic alternative against sub clinical mastitis in crossbred dairy cattle	2024-25	NIF, Gujarat	Dr.M.Jothilakshmi

Infrastructure Available

Audio visual laboratory
Educational Museum
Farm advisory unit
Seminar hall
Photography cum Video editing unit

Human resource development programmes conducted

ICAR winter school on "Livestock based livelihood options: current status, emerging issues & future scenario in combating agrarian crisis" was conducted for the benefit of faculties of veterinary universities (2014).
Personality development programme for teaching staff, ministerial staff and supporting staff of VC&RI, Namakkal was conducted under ICAR Development Grant (2019).
Field problems identified regularly and arranged technical session with interactions to find solution as part of continuing veterinary education for veterinary assistant surgeons of Namakkal district through District Livestock Forum from 2019 onwards.
Refresher training for Livestock Inspectors under State Fodder Development Scheme (2019).
Community resource persons (CRPs) from Pudhukottai and Coimbatore districts were trained under Complementary Livestock Extension Model (CLEM) during 2023 to 2025.

Outresearch Activities

Technical Advisory Committee meeting for strengthening the linkage between college and poultry industry is being organized from 2010 onwards to find solutions for the problems of poultry industry.
Village adoption programme is carried out to improve the socio-economic status of the villagers through livestock farming.
Farmer - Scientist interaction meets is conducted regularly to identify field problems and to provide appropriate solutions.
Participatory Rural Appraisal is conducted at villages to find out problems in the local areas.
Livestock technologies are being regularly disseminated to the farming community through radio, television, print media and social media.
Training programmes and workshops for farmers and extension personnel are being organised to update the knowledge of the stakeholders.
Farm advisory services are provided to the visiting farmers
Video lessons prepared for the benefit of farmers

S.No	Title	Language
1	Silage preparation	Tamil
2	Activities of VCRI, Namakkal	Tamil
3	Azolla cultivation	Tamil
4	Botulism	Tamil
5	Popularization of scientific technologies	Tamil

Faculty

Name of the Faculty	Designation	E-mail	Mobile#
NARMATHA,N	PROFESSOR AND HEAD	narmadaext@gmail.com	9442523934
THIRUNAVUKKARASU,D	PROFESSOR	dthirunavukkarasu@gmail.com	9790235464
JOTHILAKSHMI,M	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	drjothi80@gmail.com	8903222800
KARTHIKEYAN,S	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	drkarthiknkl@gmail.com	9677725688

The Head of the Department,
Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education,
Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal - 637 002.
Phone: +91-4286-266491/92/93
E-mail: ahe-vcri-nkl@tanuvas.org.in