Departmental Impact

Access to local farmers and food producers on food security and sustainable agriculture/aquaculture knowledge, skills/ technology

2023

Creating a program to address food insecurity or hunger is a valuable initiative to support students' well-being and academic success. The Department of Meat Science and Technology, UVAS, has successfully run the UVAS Meat Shop for many years. This initiative also helped the students to learn entrepreneurial skills. This shop offers quality buffalo/calf meat and mutton at affordable prices with the best quality for students and the general public.

2022

Department of Meat Science and Technology has conducted a training titled '5 days training course on slaughterhouse operations and veterinary public health regime' during 04-08 October 2021. The idea of this training was to provide the participants (Food producers and inspectors) exposure of the whole meat industry and knowledge based interactive learning to overcome challenges related to food security and sustainable agriculture in the discipline of meat production, processing, safety and value addition