The Institute of Veterinarians of Poultry Industry (IVPI) organized a Technical Nutrition Conference to celebrate the ‘World Veterinary Day’ on Saturday 7th May 2022 at Hilton Convention Centre, Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru. Raw material challenges such as inadvertent rise in protein and energy sources due to exports / shadow pricing, poor quality and adulteration threats while using unconventional raw materials etc., have significantly dented the financial health of Poultry Industry from the last couple of years. Hence, IVPI made an effort to address raw material issues and alternative resources with the theme “Feed Ingredients: what goes up, won’t come down”.
The Technical Conference was ably supported by Vencobb, Life Line’s Tender Chicken, Nandu’s, Coastal chicken, Bharath Agrovet, Ideal chicken and Shanthi Feeds Pvt Ltd.
The Event was attended by Poultry Entrepreneurs, Veterinarians, Research Scientists, Senior Government officials and Technocrats from across the country. All the dignitaries were welcomed by IVPI Secretary, Dr. Harsha Kumar Shetty and the introductory remark was given by Prof. G. Devegowda, President of IVPI. Emcee of the programme was Dr K L Aravind
An Array of eminent speakers; Shri Kishore Kumar Hegde, MD, Life Line Feeds : Dr. Manju NC, Asst. Vice President, JAPFA Comfeed : Shri. Srinivas BV, MD, Aspartika Biotech Pvt Ltd : Dr. Abhilash, MD, Natani Recyclers India Pvt Ltd : Shri. Ashok Kumar KS, Founder, Maa Integrators and Dr. Anjan Goswami, Co-founder, ‘Utpan App’ spoke on interesting topics such as, business challenges in tough situations, alternative raw materials, quality issues, processing data & take corrective actions for the benefit of poultry industry.
Dr. Aravind Bhat memorial Best Veterinarian award – 2022 was conferred on Dr. Jayanth Deshpande for his immense contribution and service to the poultry farmers. The award ceremony was conducted by Dr. G Gopal Reddy. Dr. Swamy gave the vote of thanks and the event was followed by networking dinner. The event received very positive feedback for its professionally organising meeting
The entire event was live streamed and is available at https://youtu.be/wruHshQ_dPM.