Pashu Palan Mela of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana concluded with message to improve the income of farmers with diversification and value addition of livestock products. Mela attracted a huge gathering with a thought to develop livestock professions on modern terms. Sh. A S Miglani, IAS, Secretary, 
Personnel and Mission Director, Directorate of Ground Water Management also graced the occasion.
Whereas Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University is contributing in the sphere of academics and research it is also promoting livestock professions with its extension tools. To develop livestock professions, University is extending its services, knowledge and training to every economic category. Besides delivering services to big commercial farmers it is also publicising all the techniques to medium to average category of livestock fraternity to provide equivalent chances to farmers. These views were expressed by Dr. A.S. Nanda Vice Chancellor GADVASU on the concluding day of the mela.
Dr. Harish Kumar Verma, Director of Extension Education said that some of our departments are providing services for rearing livestock whereas others are in the field of value addition of livestock products. These 
professions help them to earn an attractive income. Women can do these professions easily with their household responsibilities. He revealed that ornamentals fish, Aquarium making, flavoured Milk & Lassi, Cheese, Meat Pickle, Meat Kofta, Meat patties, Meat balls and a number of fish delicacies come in these professions. He said that Young entrepreneur can earn decent returns in goat & pig farming. In this mela College of Dairy Science and Technology, Department of Livestock Products and Technology displayed a variety of value added products of mik, meat and eggs. College of fisheries also displayed a good number of value added products of fish meat. There was great response to these stalls. Farmers were highly enthusiastic to be trained for the development of milk and meat products.
Dr. Verma revealed that a large number of farmers visited the stalls and showed keen interest in the measures to be adopted for the control of parasitic diseases of livestock. The department of Animal Nutrition has developed a number of nutritional technologies for the dairy animals of the state, which were displayed in the Pashu Palan Mela. Good quality mineral mixture and uromin lick prepared in GADVASU was sold at economical price.
Department of clinical Veterinary Medicine addressed the commonly prevalent diseases of
the dairy animals of Punjab which are mastitis, mineral disorders, foot lameness and fore-stomach disorders. The college of fisheries displayed different varieties of fish like carp fish, cat fish and ornamental fishes.
Farmers purchased University publications entitled Dairy Farming, Package of Practices, University Diary, different types of calendars like calf calendar and animal diet calendar for brushing up their knowledge. Farmers registered their names for monthly magazine.
The Judgement committee of university adjudged all the stalls and in industry category declared Goodwill Hybrid seeds first, 
Baani Milk Products, Lutin Pharma and Kansal Agro Feed all three on second, In the university category Department of Veterinary Medicine adjudged first, College of Fisheries second, National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resource, Karnal, RRTC, Bathinda, KVK, Barnala, Department of Veterinary Gynaecology all on third.
The Pashu Palan Mela concluded with a new hope for a brighter future in the livestock rearing.
