Agrivet School has just completed its first program with flying colours. 22 participants from all over India and Bangladesh took part in Industry Orientation Program-Poultry Business- Level 1 organized by Agrivet School during 19th to 24th February 2023 in Kolkata.
Dr. Arindam Chatterjee, the Program Director, commented “Our Vision is to be the pioneer and front-runner in upskilling and re-skilling talent pool into an unmatched industry-ready workforce for new-age animal agriculture towards efficiency and sustainability”. “With this flagship program of Agrivet School has started its journey towards the Vision” Chatterjee puts enthusiastically.
The sales and marketing employees of various poultry additives, pharmaceuticals and biologicals companies like Avitech, Indovax, Ayurvet, Optima Life Sciences, Orffa, Alltech, Kemin, Glamac, Stone Water Nutrition, Raison Nutrition, Doctors Agrovet joined the program. The program received self-sponsored candidates too.
The 5 days fully residential program was a perfect convergence of hands-on experience of farms, feed mill and laboratories along with real-life wisdom straight from the industry experts. All the sessions took place in the Training Centre nestled in a lush green campus in the outskirts of Kolkata that houses Broiler and Layer Farms, Feed Mill and an Advanced Nutritional & Diagnostic Laboratory. “I was so excited that we actually produced a complete batch of pellet feed in the feed mill. This was an amazing experience for all of us” said Dr. Nikita Samant from Ayurvet. Mr. Arun Tiwari, Resident Director-Indovax explained “For the first time I saw live demonstration of post-mortem examination in a Layer bird. This is one-of-a-kind experience for me”. “I have attended 37 training programs before in my professional career. A few of them were of global standard and of international acclaim. This one from Agrivet School is as good if not better.” Said Arjun Vohra, CEO-Avitech Nutrition.
Industry experts like Dr. Sumanta Das (AGM-Integration, Hitech Hatch Fresh), Dr. Uttam Pal (Poultry Health Expert), Dr. Uddhab Sarkar (GM-CBF, Shalimar Group), Dr. Supratim Panda (Nutritionist- Shalimar Group), Dr. Abhijit Mishra (Freelance Nutritionist), Dr. Shivaji Dey (Founder Director-Agrivet), Dr. Sudipto Haldar (Research Director-Agrivet), Dr. Amrita Dhara (Founder Director-Agrivet), Dr. B.K.Mishra (DGM-Sales, Anmol Feeds) and Dr. Dibyendu Kumar Dey (Founder Secretary- INFAH) shared their experiences with the participants.
“The kind of insights from their day-to-day life the industry experts brought on the table was outstanding” said Ishaan Dev Kapur, DGM-Avitech Nutrition. Dr. Abhijit Mishra unearthed “This kind of interactive sessions are need of the hour for our industry. Many a times, I have seen that sales employees are not very clear on their objective while seeking my appointments. I too meet and work with my clients but I can’t imagine visiting them with unclear agenda”. Dr. Dibyendu Kumar Dey observed “Poultry industry is undergoing a severe crunch of skilled workforce. Such orientation programs can be a touchstone intervention in optimizing human capital for the industry”. “I have got a very interesting assignment to work on as a follow through of this Level-1 program. I am sure that I would complete the assignment in time and will qualify for Level-2 of this program” said Mr. Ranjith Lakka, RSM-Optima Life Sciences.
