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Dr. P. Selvaraj is the
Managing Trustee of the TRUST, he availed B.V.Sc, degree from a
reputed institution Madras Veterinary College in the country. He
is one of the nationally renowned people in the Poultry
Development in the country. He closely worked with Dr. B. V. Rao
and continues to work with his successor Dr. Anurada Desai. When
the whole country was suffering from hunger and poverty
interwoven with malnutrition as a symbol of food insecurity
parallel to Green Revolution he with a team worked for the
development of poultry industry in Namakkal Zone and succeeded
in creating Namakkal as EGG CITY in India and abroad. This
development is a remarkable event in the democratic Indian
History which had supported the GDP of the country and reduced
poverty and food insecurity index of the country. In the process
he identified that Veterinary College in Namakkal is essential
and stood instrumental in establishing the same.
A strong believer of democracy and inclined to poor sections of
the community he addressed issues of countries poverty in
developing the poultry industry through acting as instrumental
in creating many cooperative structure of poultry farmers in
addressing their problems of poultry management and marketing.
The strategy that he adopted in this venture is partnership
building and value added market chain approach. As a model of
potential poultry farming he started first commercial poultry
farm in 1971 and subsequently Selvam Trading Company to cater
the needs of the other poultry units of Feed, Medicine and
Vaccines. In the process he had served in various capacities as
follows
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Chartered President,
Rotary club of Namakkal Poultry Town
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District Chairman,
Poultry Development (Rotary District)
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President, Rotary
Club of Namakkal 1982
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District Chairman,
Veterinary (Rotary District)
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Chairman, Fund
raising committee Rotary Club of Namakkal, to Tamil Nadu
Government to start Veterinary College at Namakkal
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Chartered President,
Technical Advisory Committee (TEC) by Tamil Nadu Poultry
Farmers Welfare Association Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary
International.
In today's context the
poultry industry facing various problems at Local, Regional and
at National level. At local level the many of poultry farmers
suffer from lack of appropriate technology in poultry disease
and management which occurs from time to time addressing this
Veteran Poultry Scientist Dr. P. Selvaraj runs a special Avian
Research Laboratory for the present and future generations of
poultry farmers addressing their day to day problems. Further he
runs a Diploma Course on FEED MILLING TECHNOLOGY in his Selvamm
Arts and Science College to train educated youths to address the
future problems of poultry industry through research. Here it is
to be noted that this is the only course of its kind in India.
At regional level he had been co-coordinating the poultry
farmers of different states by collective effort in partnership
mode through Committees, Associations and groups in coordinating
the efforts of poultry farmers towards development of the
country's economy. Here, it is pertinent to mention that he is
not only involved in the development of poultry farmers he also
encourages the farmers supporting the poultry farmers like for
example Feed Crop (Maize) cultivating farmers through evolving
strategies for contract farming, Crop improvement, Rural storage
godowns, etc. and works closely with M S Swaminathan Research
Foundation in this direction. This shows his approach towards
sustainable development with equitable sharing of benefits. With
this approach he serves the Nation in the following capacities
at present.
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Chairman, National
Egg Co-ordination Committee (NECC), for Tamil Nadu Zone
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President, Tamil
Nadu Poultry Farmers Federation, Namakkal
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Vice-President,
Tamil Nadu Hatchery Owners Association
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Vice Chairman, The
Association of National Poultry Feed Manufacturers,
Guttekedi, Pune
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Member, World
Poultry Science Association, India Branch
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Member, Karnataka
Hatchery Owners Association
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Member, Board Based
Advisory Group, Agriculture Human Resource Development
Project, Tamil Nadu and Animal Science University
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Member, Veterinary
Council
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Director, S.N.S.
Data Scribe, Coimbatore
At National level he
addresses policy issues related to the countries development
directly and indirectly at his various capacities. He believes
that strengthening education would strengthen the Governments
capacity to face the future problems of the country. In this
direction for the development of Science and Technology he had
been involved in communicating the Government and creating
education infrastructure for community development through
creating a TRUST in September 1999. The Trust he registered in
the name of his beloved father V. Ponnusamy and is so called as
V. Ponnusamy Educational and Charitable Trust.
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