Courses and services offered

Residential courses

Animal Health (major) and Production (minor).

• Stock persons course (fresh) - 5 months
• Stock persons course (refresher) - 2 months
• Animal Health Auxiliary - AHA (fresh) - 4 months
• Animal Health Auxiliary - AHA (refresher) - 2 months
• Veterinary Assistants - Course (fresh) - 2 years.*

Short Courses/Outreach Programs

Agribusiness and Enterprise Development:

• Business Skills Development (BDS) - 2 weeks targeting;
  • Animal health Personnel
  • Livestock based businesses (meat trade, hides and skins trade, etc)
  • Butchery Management and Meat Marketing
  • Milk handling and processing
  • Hides and Skins Improvement and marketing
          
• Market Oriented Animal Production Courses
  • Poultry production and marketing: 2 - 4 weeks.  
  • Small ruminants production and marketing: 2 - 6 weeks.
  • Live animals trade - 4 weeks      
    Milk production and marketing - 4 weeks 

•  Commodity Handling and Hygiene
  • Meat inspection and meat hygiene - 3 months 
  • Slaughter house/slab management - 2 months
  • Fish meat inspection and safety - to be determined*

• Livestock Products Processing:
  • Leather technology and leather goods manufacture - 6 months*.

• Milk Handling and Processing

Business opportunity seminars (BOS)

undertaken to promote opportunities identified in different regions at no cost (1-2 days).