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ArticleItem Open Access Access to Services: Case of Marginal and Landless Livestock Farmers in Tamil Nadu of India(2011-03) Sakthivel, KM; Khandekar, Prakash; Sasidhar, PVK; Narmatha, N; TANUVASA study was conducted among 200 households of marginal and landless livestock farmers in rural Tamil Nadu of India to determine the extent of their access to various support services and resources like animal health care, credit, education and common property resources (CPRs). Multistage sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Majority of the households (97.50%) contacted Veterinary Assistant Surgeon (VAS) when their animals fell sick, and 36.50% made 3-4 visits to veterinary dispensary. Nearly 87% households called VAS for home visit, and 57% paid INR 100-150 visit-1 for treatment. 56% households received credit in the past 3 years and not yet paid, while the remaining 44% were free from any debt. For majority of households (73.72%), the chief source of credit was money lenders. Though access to educational services has improved, much impact was not noticeable. CPRs are at the edge of extermination. Delivering the service of mobile veterinary clinics, encouraging veterinary graduates to start private veterinary clinics, conducting awareness campaign on common livestock ailments and management of CPRs, establishing community fodder farms, and improvement in formal credit system accessibility are recommended.ArticleItem Open Access DEMAND AND SUPPLY PROJECTIONS OF INDIAN VETERINARY MANPOWER(Global Impact Factor, 2016-03) Thilakar, P; Tripathi, Hema; Sasidhar, PVK; Kumar, G Senthil; TANUVASThe present study was carried out to explore the demand and supply gap in veterinary man power in India. The state-wise projected demand for the trained veterinary manpower was calculated by collecting the data on livestock population for the previous two censuses (1997 and 2003) for the 10 states and future livestock population were projected for the years 2020 and 2025 by calculating point to point annual compound growth rate. The data on inturn and outturn trends of veterinary graduates was collected for the 10 years and annual compound growth rate was calculated. Based on the growth rate and outturn of veterinary graduates, the supply of future veterinary manpower was projected. The demand for veterinary manpower in the year 2020 will be lowest in the Kerala and Himachal Pradesh as the projected population would be at the minimal level. The annual compound growth rate of outturn of students were found positive, which indicated that the out turn of students are increasing over years in all the selected states. The deficit was the highest in the state of Uttar Pradesh (6376 veterinarians), followed by West Bengal (2871), Tamil Nadu (1405) and Gujarat (1434). The outturn growth rate of the veterinary manpower was not proportionate with the growing population of livestock and poultry. Hence, attention might be given to rectify the demand and supply gap in veterinary man power in the supply deficit States to avoid disturbance in livestock production.