According to a recent USDA review, Chicken meat production in India was ranked 6th in the world in 2011. India is the third largest producer of eggs and fifth largest producer of poultry meat in the world. Though not a major career option yet, students will get to study how to raise and manage healthy chickens, turkeys, and ducks for eggs or meat and about animal nutrition and food science.
■ Central Avian Research Institute
The Postgraduate Education and Training section offers an Master of Veterinary Science (MVSc) and PhD degrees in Poultry Science. The programmes are offered through the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, UP. The intake for MVSc and PhD students is 10 and six. Some subjects include Fundamentals of Poultry Products Technology, Principles of Poultry Nutrition, Fresh and Processed Poultry Meat Technology, Avian Molecular Genetics and Protein Utilisation by Poultry.
VISIT: www.icar.org.in/cari/pge.php
■ Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
The Department of Poultry Science offers BVSc and MVSc courses in the subject. Avian production management, Commercial poultry production and hatchery management, Diversified poultry production and current concepts in poultry management and marketing, Poultry breeding and genetics, Poultry products technology and marketing, Physiology of poultry production, Developments in poultry products technology and Poultry economics, marketing and integration are some subjects you will study at the university.
VISIT: www.tanuvas.tn.nic.in/mvc_poultry.html
■ Bombay Veterinary College
The Poultry Science Department of this Mumbai-based College was earlier a constituent college of Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, and now is a constituent College of Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur. They offer an MVSc in Poultry Science. Intake is limited to nine.
VISIT: www.bvc.org.in