དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་གཞུང་། རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་སྒོ་ནོར་རྩྭ་ཆག་ཞིབ་འཚོལ་དང་གོང་འཕེལ་ལྟེ་བ། བུམ་ཐང་། ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF BHUTAN National Research and Development Center for Animal Nutrition Bumthang
WEL COME TO NRDCAN, BUMTHANG.
About us
Background: National Research and Development Center for Animal Nutrition (NRDCAN) was initially established as National Fodder Seed Production Center (NFSPC) during 6th FYP, with main objective of producing fodder seeds for farmers. However, with the broadening of mandates to coordinate, monitor and evaluate fodder development activities in the country, the center got upgraded and renamed to National Feed and Fodder Development Program (NFFDP) in 2003. In 2016, the center again got renamed to National Research and Development Center for Animal Nutrition (NRDCAN) with inclusion of nutrition research and laboratory services into the mandates. The office of NRDCAN is currently located within NHRDC campus, Bumthang, sharing the area of ________sq.km, NRDCAN being an apex technical body on animal nutrition, the center functions in close collaboration with the dzongkhags, the livestock central farms, and commodity centers in the areas of animal nutrition, feed and fodder development, seed production, laboratory services and relevant research activities.
Mode of service delivery: The National Research and Development Center for Animal Nutrition (NRDCAN)delivers its service through the network of internal technical units in collaboration with 4 Regional Livestock Development Centers (RLDCs) as well with 20 Dzongkhag feed and fodder focal persons. At the same time, NRDCAN also caters the services directly to the farmers in complementary manner to avoid duplication of the services.
Major activities of the programme: 1. Pasture development (temperate and sub-tropical. 2. Fodder germplasm development. 3. Fodder development through plantations (root slips, cuttings and seedlings). 4. Crop residue enrichment (straw treatment, oat hull and maize Stover silage ect.) as livestock feed. 5. Promotion of feed technologies. 6. Winter fodder (oat, maize, swede and fodder beet) promotion. 7. Carry out on- station and on-farm research on animal nutrition. 8. Support and estabishment of forage enterprise development. 9. Quality control of fodder seeds and feeds through laboratory analysi
Priority programs: Fodder conservation, crop residue enrichment, total mixed ration formulation, forage enterprise development, winter fodder integration of fodder with horticulture and agricultural crops.
National Research and Development Center for Animal Nutrition, Jakar, Bumthang, Bhutan. Phone No: +975-3-631135