Brief Information about the Department:

The Department of Animal Nutrition is offering courses for undergraduate (B.V.Sc. & A.H.) and post-graduate (M.V. Sc and Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition) degree programmes as per the latest VCI and ICAR syllabus. The Department is having well-equipped laboratories with facilities for analysing feeds and fodders for their nutritional composition. The department has experimental shed for conducting researches/feeding experiments on poultry. The Department has expertise in providing feeding strategies and feed formulas for livestock and poultry species and has a feed processing units for preparation of compounded feeds for livestock and poultry.

List of Faculty:

1). Dr. Rajat Buragohain, M.V.Sc., Ph.D., Prof. & Head

2). Dr. A.K. Samanta, M.V.Sc., Ph. D, Pro

3). Dr. Biren Kumar Das, M.V.Sc., Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.

List of Non-Teaching Staff:

            1). Mr. R. Lalrinkina, FCLA

            2). Mr. Rajesh, MTS

Year of Starting M.V.Sc. Programme: 2008

Year of Starting PhD Programme: 2011

No. of Passed out Students:

M.V.Sc.: 24

                        Ph.D.: 2

Facilities Available: Facilities available for analysing feeds and fodders for proximate composition and fibre fractions and also some minerals and in vitro studies.

Ongoing Projects: Effect of processing on nutritive and anti-nutritive components and in vitro nutrient digestibility of tree leaves fed to ruminants in Mizoram.