The Curtain Raiser of IAI Expo 2010

Karnal - 12 August: The Curtain Raiser of IAI Expo 2010, the biggest exhibition on livestock and dairy, took place in Karnal at Noor Mahal Hotel, witnessing presence of many distinguished guests including Sh. Govindrao Adik, Member of Rajya Sabha. The event is set to take place from 27 - 29 October 2010 at NDRI,Karnal.

The evening was glorified with the presence of esteemed personalities of dairy industry including Dr A.K.  Srivastava,  Director ,  National Dairy Research Institute,  Karnal and Dr .  B.  K. Joshi,  Director ,  National Bureau of Animal Genetics and Research,  Karnal and Dr Gurmeet Singh,  Deputy Director ,  Department of Animal Husbandry,  State Government
of Haryana.

At the end of this grand program all were entertained with cocktail and dinner after giving them the Vote of  Thanks.

The keynote address was delivered by Mr A.   V.  Gupte,  Dairy Consultant,  Maharashtra.  He  spoke about many  important  issues of  Indian dairy  sectors. 

He said  that  IAI Expo 2010  is where you can capitalize on  the opportunities and  gain  your market  share  in  the world's  largest  and  fastest  growing country.  He added that IAI Expo will open up an immense opportunity for the companies,  manufacturers,  suppliers,  traders,  importers and exporters of livestock,  poultry and aqua products to expose and communicate their business  as well  as products  to  the public.

Dr A.  K.  Srivastava,  Director ,  N.  D.  R.  I.,  Karnal,  appreciated the effort being taken by Mr  Vishal Gupta and his team for organizing this exhibition because such type of exhibition is essential for bringing technologies from lab  to  the  field of  industry. 

He  stressed  that  industry  and  research  institutions  should  work together  so  that dairy  industry  to be benefited  and progressed. 
He also stressed on the need for modification of the technologies for 70% dairy farmers who possess only 2-3 animals and all these technologies should  reach  at his door  steps. 

He appealed the industry people to come forward to take initiative for preparing  indigenous milk products and mithais as  it has tremendous scope in domestic as well as export market.  He  further urged the  industry people to think in this direction so that quality of milk is improved and catch the export market.

Dr B.  K.  Joshi,  Director ,  National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources,  Karnal,  said that India is the most significant source of cattle diversity in the world and India's cattle breeds like Gir ,  Tharparkar and Sahiwal are being used in Brazil,  Keniya,  Australia,  South Africa and USA for developing major livestock economies. 

He  appealed  to  the  organized  dairy  farmers  to  participate  in  the germplasm preservation program and breed development program so that more semen can be produced and preserved and used by various farmers. 
Lastly he wished  IAI expo  all  the best.

 Dr Gurmeet Singh,  Deputy Director ,  Department of  Animal Husbandry,  Government of Haryana,   said  that  there  is  tremendous opportunity of business  in dairy sector as demand of the milk  in  India  is  increasing because of growing population,  majority of which are vegetarian.  He talked about many subsidies available in dairy sector for purchase of animals,  dairy farm equipments etc and suggested the people to avail of these subsidies.  He assured that IAI Expo is the best platform especially for dairy farmers and dairy entrepreneurs  to express  their  views  and  gain  innovative knowledge.

 

Dr .  S.  S.    Zombade,  Managing   Director ,  Poshak Agrovet India Pvt Ltd.,  emphasized on  the  the  role  for publicprivate collaboration  in dairy  research and development.  He further stressed on the need for contribution of the scientists  for  the development of dairy  industry.  
While discussing the importance of political lobbying in such expo,  he said  that  the  support  of  policy  makers,   politicians  together  with  the government  bureaucrats  is  of  vital  importance  so  that  they  should understand our industry,  our problems and help the industry while policy making.

Mr .  Love Kumar from Emersion Climate  Technologies said that there is need  to  give  stimulus  for  further  development  of  dairy  industry  like information  technology and such exhibition will offer  the great platform  for dairy entrepreneurs to communicate their business as well as products to their  customers. 
While discussing about cold chain importance,  he stressed on the need of cold chain technologies for maintaining quality of highly perishable milk and milk products.

Baljeet  Singh Reddu,   Laksha  Food  (  India)  Ltd  highlighted  the many problems  faced  by  the  Indian dairy  farmers  and mainly  focused on  the availability of the germplasm.  He says,   “Brazil had taken a  few Gir cows  from Gujarat as they did not have good breeds of cows,  which suited their hot atmosphere.   This breed has been used  in Brazil  in  the  improvement of other breeds which are now seen everywhere and had brought white revolution in Brazil.  But India does not have the pure germplasm of our native breeds for its further improvement.  Under these circumstances it is imperative to improve  and  conserve  these  valuable  germplasm,   he  added.

Dr .  C.  B.  Singh,  Managing Director ,  MDEC (India)  International,   informed the participants that  IAI Expo has grown in its magnitude and scale since  its inception and congratulated Mr .  Vishal Gupta,  chairman of the organizing company and his  team  for  the  same  for creating  such best platform  for dairy industry.  He appealed to the dairy industry people,  who did not participate in  the previous expos  to  take  this opportunity,   for  taking part  in  the ensuing,  IAI Expo.  He pointed out that though  India  is the  largest milk producer ,  there are  still more developmental works  to do  in  the dairy  sector  to match with  the  international  standards.

Dr .  A.K.  Aggarwal,  President,   Indian Association of Dairy Engineering,  appreciated the efforts being exerted by the organizer  for  IAI Expo.  He assured that IAI Expo 2010 will be a grand success.    He said that this Expo will benefit  the people  related  to  the dairy  industry.

Dr Bhullar ,  Nestle India,  said that IAI Expo will be the best platform of business opportunities  for all  industry people.  He said that milk production on competitive market prices is the biggest challenge for dairy farmers and he  suggested preparing  silage  from  fodder  so  that  the  cost of  the  feed  can be reduced during shortage of fodder .  He also stressed on the adaptation of new  technologies by  the dairy  farmers  and mechanization of dairy  industry. 

Dr .  Anup Kalra,  CEO,  Aurvet Ltd.   stressed on  the bringing back our traditional agricultural practices in dairing .  He stressed on adaptation of mixed farming where dairy farming and agriculture should be done side by side. 
While talking about good management of dairy animals he quoted the example of Aurvet Ltd.,  how they bring anoestrous,  non-lactating cows of Goshala into heat and lactation by providing them with nutrition and good management.   Therefore,  he emphasized on the need of extension activities for the training of the dairy farmers so that farmers will be educated and progressive,    thus ultimately our  India will progress.

Mr .  Ram Singh,  one of the progressive dairy farmers of Haryana,  raised many problems which are currently faced by the dairy farmers like non-availability  of  good  quality  semen  and  feed  at  competitive  prices.   He appealed  to  all  eminent  personalities  of  dairy  industry  present  in  the program to guide the dairy  farmers and assist them to provide good quality semen,  feed as well as loan for purchasing animals and dairy equipments,  so that Indian dairy farmers should progress and ultimately dairy industry will progress.

Mr  Vijay Setia,  President All India Rice Exporter Association talked about the current issue of exports in rice and co-related it with dairy industry.  He stated that IAI Expo is the best platform for dairy processors for opening the gateway to  gulf  and other  countries &  also  to  retail  chain  industry  in  India. 

Dr .  Rajoria from Indian Dairy Association talked about the need of such exhibition of  international stature  in dairy  industry to take this country forward and emphasized on export of dairy products and technologies to other part of  the world.