P.V. NARSIMHA RAO TELANGANA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY
RAJENDRANAGAR,HYDERABAD
Animal Nutrition(ANN)
Department of Animal Nutrition
Faculty Details
Sl.No Name of the teacher Designation
1. Dr. Nagalakshmi, D Senior Professor.
2. Dr. Narsimha, J Professor
3. Dr. Nalini kumari, N Professor.
4. Dr. Alexander, G Professor
5. Dr. Sudheer, A Assistant Professor
 

This Department is functioning since 1964 as Department of Animal Science. It was bifurcated into Department of Animal Nutrition and Department of Feed & Fodder Technology in 1984. This Department was the first to start PG Program in 1968 and Ph.D. Program in 1978. Excellent infrastructure facilities were created in the department during 1980‟s to conduct research on improvement and evaluation of crop residues and agro-industrial by products. So far, 162 M.V.Sc and 28 Ph.D. theses in Animal Science/ Animal Nutrition are produced, of which 44 M.V.Sc. and 6 Ph.D. are in the field of Feed & Fodder Technology.

The laboratories are equipped with sophisticated equipment like Kjeltec, Fibretec, Soxhtec, Spectronic 21, Bomb Calorimeter, Gerhardt digestion & distillation unit, Gas Production Analyzer unit (IVGP apparatus), RUSITEC, HPTLC, HPLC and Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer.

It also has a Feed & Fodder Processing Plant with facilities for chopping, grinding, pelleting, expander cum extruder and block making for processing of roughage based complete diets. Facilities for conducting Feeding and Metabolism trials with individual feeding facilities are available for large and small ruminants.
Research Projects completed
  1. Goat and Sheep Feeding in India, Phase-I and Phase-II, IDRC, Canada
  2. AICRP on Agricultural By-products, ICAR
  3. Effect of feeding fodder based complete diets on production performance of crossbred cattle, ICAR
  4. Economics of Buffalo Beef Production, ICAR
  5. Nutritional Requirements of Indigenous sheep, IFS, Sweden
  6. Improving the nutritive value of certain agricultural waste products for sheep, IFS,sweden
  7. Development of economic concentrate mixtures using exclusively unconventional feed ingredients in dairy cattle, HLRF, Bombay
  8. Network programme on Agricultural by-products–Complete Diets, ICAR, Rs. 66.0 Lakhs, 1999-02
  9. Economics of milk production, State Govt
  10. Nutritive evaluation of Palm Press Fibre in buffaloes through urea ammoniation, ICAR
  11. Improving feed utilization of grazing sheep during fodder scarcity through rumen manipulation of dietary fat, AP-NL Biotechnology Project BTU, IPE, 5.0 Lakhs, 1998-2000
  12. Utilization of by-products of pulses, oilseeds along with coarse cereal grains for intensive goat production, NATP, ICAR, Rs. 26.24 Lakhs, 2000-2004
  13. Development of suitable technologies to make use of sunflower heads and castor cake as animal feed, NATP, ICAR, Rs. 29.40 Lakhs, 2000-06
  14. Nutritional manipulations for obtaining higher performance and immune-competence in sheep raised for mutton production, ICAR, Rs. 27.40 Lakhs, 2003-06
  15. Application of yeast culture and expander-extruder technologies for improved utilization of Agro-industrial by-products for economical milk and meat production, BTU, IPE,
  16. Improvement of feed resources and nutrient utilization for raising animal production, ICAR, Rs. 97.16 Lakhs, 2002-14
  17. Development and application of thermo tolerant probiotic yeast for enhanced animal productivity, DBT, Rs. 18.07 Lakhs, 2007-10
  18. Value chain model for Bio-ethanol production from sweet sorghum in rain fed areas thro collective action and partnership, NAIP, ICAR, Rs. 38.50 Lakhs, 2008-12
  19. A value chain model for clean meat production from sheep, NAIP, ICAR, Rs. 176.07 Lakhs, 2008-12
  20. Dietary modulation of Zinc in buffaloes: Effect on growth, immune response and ovarian follicular dynamics, DBT, Rs. 33.40 Lakhs, 2010-14
  21. Technological Interven-tions for Improving Quality of Feed for Economical Milk and Meat Production, RKVY, Rs. 84.19 Lakhs, 2008-11
  22. Preparation, Propagation and Supply of Low Cost Feed by Using Crop Residues and Agricultural by Products, RKVY, Rs. 32.5 Lakhs, 2011-14
On- going Projects
  1. Preparation, Propagation and Supply of Low Cost Feed by Using Crop Residues and Agricultural by Products and their impact studies, RKVY, Rs. 9.14 Lakhs, 2014.