NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar

Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences

Department of Livestock Management

Aims

	To prepare graduates with the required knowledge in the area of dairy and meat sciences enabling them to meet the national and international challenges of livestock industrialization.
	To conduct problem oriented research on commercial aspects of livestock management focused at helping farmers and to train students in research methodology.
	To maintaining linkages with provincial and national livestock development organizations and business support organizations for transfer of technology to local farmers tailoring the production system with consumer preference and international trade.

Academic program

The Department is offering several courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students. In addition postgraduate thesis research is also conducted at the department. Currently the department has two enrolled PhD students and 15 MSc Hons students. The department has one operational quality testing and one full-fledged dairy processing laboratory with the facilities for the quality assessment and processing of milk, respectively.

Research activities

In addition to PhD and MSc Hons students' research projects which are mostly funded by the University or HEC, the faculty members are also working on projects funded by other agencies. A two years project under ALP-PARC Program "Implementation of NIR technique for the evaluation of animal feeds - phase I" with a total cost of Rs. 1.94 million is recently completed. A project "maintaining genetic diversity for sustained development of Chitrali-Patti cottage industry and mutton production" at a total cost of Rs.3.15 million has already been executed which is funded by PARC under ALP program. The staff members are also involved in joint projects with other departments of the University.

Research and Teaching Dairy farm

The Department has established a dairy farm at the University campus for teaching and research purposes where 90 heads of Frisian and Sahiwal cattle and water buffaloes are being kept. Twenty five acres of forage land is also available for fodder production and research. The farm has greatly strengthened the livestock production, research and teaching potentials of the Faculty. Arrangements have been made to use machine milking at the farm and also to establish a dairy-processing unit with the facilities to produce pasteurized milk, cheese, butter and yogurt. Efforts are also under-way to introduce medium level mechanization for utilization of renewable energy resources (biogas and solar energy applications) at the dairy farm to make the farm a model to be adapted by the area farmers.

Paper published

The Department has published about 20 scientific papers during 2004-05 in journals of international repute and two other reports on livestock action programs for NWFP (FAO) and on Livestock Production System in Lachi (UNDP).

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Faculty Members
1.	Dr. M. Subhan Qureshi, Professor and Chairman (DVM, MSc Hons, Ph.D) E.mail drmsqureshi@aup.edu.pk drmsqureshi@gmail.com Tel #. Office +92-91-9216547 Tel #. Home +92-91-5842354 Mobile 0092-300-5877933 Research interests Nutrition-lactation-reproduction interaction in dairy buffaloes Semen quality of small and large ruminants Environmental stress on crossbred cattle in the tropics Reproductive physiology of domestic animals Commercialization of livestock enterprises Economic aspects of livestock production and business analysis Selected publications Qureshi, M.S.; H.A. Samad, G. Habib., R.H. Usmani and M.M. Siddiqui, 1999. Study on factors leading to seasonality of reproduction in dairy buffaloes. I. Nutritional factors. Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci, (Korea) 12 (7): 1019-1024. (ISSN 1011-2367). (cited 2 times). scopus link, abstract free Qureshi, M.S.; G. Habib., H.A. Samad, L.A. Lodhi and R.H. Usmani, 1999. Study on factors leading to seasonality of reproduction in dairy buffaloes. II.Non-nutritional factors. Asian Aust. J. Anim. Sci. (Korea) 12 (7): 1025-1030. (ISSN 1011-2367). (cited 1 time). scopus ink. abstract free Qureshi, M.S., G. Habib, H.A. Samad, M.M. Siddiqui, N.Ahmad and M. Syed, 2002. Reproduction-nutrition relationship in dairy buffaloes. I. Effect of intake of protein, energy and blood metabolites levels. Asian-Aust. .J.Anim.Sci. (Korea), 15(3): 330-339 (ISSN 1011-2367). (cited 6 times). scopus link PDF free Chand, N., F.R.Durrani, M.S.Qureshi, Z.Durrani, 2007. ROLE OF Berberis lycium In Reducing Serum Cholesterol In Broilers. Asian Aust J. Anim. Sci. 20 (4): 563-568. scopus ink abstract PDF free Qureshi, M.S., N.Ahmad 2006. Interaction among calf suckling, use of oxytocin, milk production and reproduction in dairy buffaloes. Animal Reproduction Science (Accepted).
2.	Dr. Nazir Ahmed, (Ph.D - UAF)
3.	Dr. M.Mohsin Saddiqui, Professor (Ph.D. - USA), Email: mohsinsiddiqi@hotmail.com
4.	Dr. A.Rahman, Asst. Professor (Ph.D. - UK), Email: unib@brain.net.pk
5.	Mr. Sar Zamin Khan , Asst. Professor (M.Sc. - AUP)
6.	Mr. Suhail Ahmed, Lecturer (M.Sc. - AUP)
7.	Mr. Muhammad Tahir, Lecturer (M.Sc. - AUP)
8.	Mr. Ahsannullah, Manager, Dairy Farm (M.Sc. - AUP)
9.	Ms.Anila Mushtaq, Lecturer (M.Sc. - AUP)
10.	Mr.Sohail Ahmad, Lecturer  (M.Sc. - AUP)