BackShri Dushyant Chautala, MP and Member ICAR visited Arid Region Campus, Bikaner

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Shri Dushyant Chautala, Hon’ble Member Parliament and Member ICAR visited Arid Region Campus on 4^th October 2015. Shri Chautala with his team members visited sheep sectors to assess the performance of Chokla, Magra and Marwari breeds for enhancing carpet wool production in country. He appreciated the physical performance of animals and scientific rearing system of sheep in the institute. He also visited the Feed Technology Unit, laboratories, museum, agriculture farm and range pasture etc. The utility of various supplementary feed products of Feed Technology Unit was appreciated for arid condition. He was highly impressed with greenery of farm and campus. Dr A.K. Patel, Head ARC explained the research activities, field programmes and role of institute for enhancing quality wool production in arid region. He was keen to know the activities being organised in farmers’ field under Magra field project. He interacted with staff of ARC and appreciated the efforts for maintaining the quality sheep breeds and other  resources at ARC. Dr H K Narula, Principal Scientist coordinated the visit of Sh. Chautala and team in the institute.