With the poultry farming margins under pressure because of increasing cost of feed ingredients, enhancing farm productivity by improving FCR has become the core issue for modern poultry farming. Maintaining healthy intestine is crucial for optimum utilization of feed ingredients. But, bird’s intestine is usually exposed to a great variety of pathogens transferred through feed or water, resulting in poor feed utilization. Clostridium is the major intestinal pathogen, which causes Necrotic Enteritis resulting in poor growth and egg production. During the last few decades there has been tremendous development in the genetic improvement of birds for higher productivity, but at the same time, managing the birds in different weather conditions, especially during extreme summer has been always challenging. V-Max containing Virginiamycin is the right answer to all above problems and has been launched in India recently. V-Max-500 is the Animal Feed Supplement containing Virginiamycin 500 gm per kg. V-Max is manufactured by Phibro Animal Health, USA and imported & marketed in India by Zydus Animal Health Limited. Zydus AHL is the only company in India, marketing virginiamycin.

Zydus AHL sponsored The Indian National Kennel Club's 173rd and 174th twin Championship Dog Show held on 5th February 2012 at Ahmedabad. More than 150 dogs were registered for the show. The show hosted some of the rare breeds like Borzoi, Rajapalayam, Mudhol Hound and Shih Tzu. 18 dogs were declared winners in different categories. The prizes were distributed by Dr. Arun Atrey, MD, Zydus AHL.

In order to encourage sports and inculcate true sportsmanship among the students of various veterinary colleges, Zydus AHL has decided to sponsor the all India veterinary colleges’ badminton championship in annual sports event held at GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand on 19-21 March 2012. The event was very well organized. 90 male and 60 female students from 10 different colleges of the country participated in various events. It was the real opportunity for them to demonstrate their talent, the team spirit and interact with one another. Dr GK Singh, Dean, College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Pantnagar and the participants expressed their gratitude to ZAHL for sponsoring the event.

ZAHL and its business associate Abic Biological Laboratories Ltd, Israel participated in Poultry India2011, a national exhibition with international repute from 23 – 25 November 2011 at Hyderabad. More than 300 visitors Including poultry farmers, consultants, industrialists and students visited our stall and enquired our products.

ZAHL participated in 1st Paschim Banga Poultry Mela on 1-3 March 2012 at Kolkata. The event was jointly organized by ARD Department, Government of West Bengal and Poultry Federation. More than 2000 visitors visited our stall which included the integrators, feed millers, hatchery owner, poultry farmers from West Bengal and neighboring states like Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand & North East.

ZAHL has successfully participated in Poultry Expo at Raipur on 13 – 15 March 2012. More than 300 visitors Including poultry farmers, consultants, industrialists and students visited our stall and enquired our products.

Zydus AHL has conducted a technical seminar for poultry farmers on 26/2/2012 at Hotel Capital, Cochin, Kerala. 40 farmers attended the meeting. The technical presentation was given by Dr N. Senthilkumar, Sr Technical Manager – Poultry. Dr.Alwin Jeyaraj, a leading consultant made a presentation on general management practices in broilers.

On 21st Feb 2012, Mr PK Gupta, Sr RM (L) Jaipur and Mr Ramesh Kumar, BA, Sujangarh organized a dairy farmers meet of about 20 farmers at Amul Milk Collection Centre, Village Tidoki Badi, via Salasar, Dist. Churu. Both discussed about Zycloz, Biobloom Forte & other feed supplements with the farmers.

On 3rd October 2011, Mr PK Gupta, Sr RL, Jaipur and Mr Rajeev Agrawal, VSE, Nagour participated in the meeting of the secretaries of milk collection centres of RCDF at Nagour. There were 15 secretaries of dairy union and promoted Zycloz, Fat Milk Dhara & Biobloom.

In Feb 2012, Mr Rajeev Agrawal, VSE, Nagour participated in Ramdeo Mela at Nagour, Rajasthan. He promoted Zycloz, Fat Milk Dhara & Biobloom to the farmers.

Mr MS Raghavendra, VSE-L, Davangere participated in Dharmasthala, Dist Davangere in Krishi Mela. He promoted Zycloz and other sheep products to the shepherds and sheep consultants.

ZAHL participated in calf rally at village Kohand, distt Karna (Haryana) on 4th Feb 2012. Mr Mohammed Shabbir Khan, RM-L & Mr Krishna Kant, VSE-L successfully interacted with the farmers and introduced new Farmcare products.

Mr HS Dutta, VSE-L, Jammu participated in cattle show organized by Animal Husbandry Dept, J&K at Nandpur. State ministers, Dr SL Tikkoo, Director, AHD and Dr AK Kaul, Director, SHD were present on the occasion.

Results of Zydus AHL All India Drawing & Painting Competition 2011

We are pleased to announce the results of All India Drawing & Painting Competition2011. The response and participation from the faculty members and the students of veterinary colleges was highly encouraging. The prize winning entries speak volumes of the creative skills of students of various veterinary colleges. We have translated 12 excellent sketches into a table top calendar for the year 2012.

 All India Top Ten Winners are:-

1st Prize     :  Soney Priya Thakur, Col. Of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Palampur(H P)

2nd Prize    :  Neelima Tiwari, Col. Of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Palampur(H P)

3rd Prize     : Chandan Saha, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sc, Kolkata

4th Prize    :  Manisha Tirky, Ranchi Veterinary College, Ranchi

5th  Prize    : Abhay Sengar,Jabalpur Veterinary College, Jabalpur

6th  Prize    : Abhilash Acharya, Orissa Veterinary College, Bhubaneswar

7th Prize   :  Shruthi R.,Veterinary College, Hassan, Karnataka

8th  Prize  :  B. Sathiya Narayan, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai

9 th  Prize : Renjith P. Gopi, College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Pookode

10th Prize     : P. Thangaraj, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal

11th Prize     : Darji Bhavik Rashikbhai, College of Veterinary Science & AH, Sardarkrushinagar

12th Prize     : V R Kundave, College of Veterinary & Animal Science, Anand

Individual certificates including participation certificates, prize amount won at all India level & college level have been dispatched to the respective institutional head. We congratulate the winners and look forward to a continued support in future too.