Activities

Ethnoveterinary medicines are used extensively and quite effectively for primary health care treatment to make domestic animals productive and healthy. The indigenous knowledge of the veterinary health care system acquired by traditional herbal healers (Pashu Vaidyas) is orally transformed from one generation to other. Over centuries, people have developed their own system of keeping animals healthy and productive using age-old home remedies, surgical and manipulative techniques, husbandry strategies and associated magicoreligious practices. Cost, inaccessibility and other problems like side effects of modern animal health care system have encouraged the local people to rely on traditional rural wisdom. Ethnoveterinary practices are often cheap, safe, long time tested and based on local resources and strengths. These can provide useful alternatives to modern animal health care systems

Supported over 20 projects across the country covering different breeds of cattle and most of the Dairy Farms are running successfully.