The Faculty of Animal Production and Technology (FAPT) is comprised of four departments i.e. livestock production, poultry production, food & nutrition and animal products technology. Our goal is to create a learning community in which students at all levels, and their faculty mentors, can engage in the pursuit of knowledge across and between a broad range of disciplines in the animal sciences. FAPT also provides conducive environment for our graduate students to explore the possibilities, test their theories and grow from students to scholars. FAPT education is about specialized learning for career enhancement, about adding to and deepening one?s stock of animal capital, applications of knowledge in one specific area in order to advance in the workplace. In the 21st century, citizens and employees need to be broadly trained and flexible. Labor market conditions change, fostered by technology, global and demographic trends and public policies. Our job titles, our employers and even our specializations change and evolve over the course of our careers. FAPT plays a unique role within Pakistan?s livestock industry by integrating a program of basic and applied research at the cutting edge of animal science and production with extension activities to disseminate this information among the farmers nation wide. The commercial competitiveness of our livestock producers relies heavily on the establishment of new technologies for managing and feeding animals to maximize productivity within our environment.

FAPT is devoted to undergraduate and graduate teaching, research and extension/outreach that focus mostly on the nutrition & feed technology, poultry & livestock production and value added animal product development. Our faculty advises and offers a large, diverse curriculum to more than 800 undergraduates and about 150 graduate students. The faculty offers two undergraduate four year degree programs i.e. B.S (Hons) Poultry Science and B.S (Hons) Dairy Technology along with many other courses for other undergraduate degree programs being offered at this university like DVM, B.S (Hons) Fisheries & Wildlife, B.S (Hons) Bioinformatics & Biotechnology; and B.S (Hons) Applied Microbiology. The faculty also offers many diploma and short courses for the farmers to enhance their knowledge about different aspects of animal production and related technologies. We are especially proud of the quality of our faculty advising and our ability to offer experiential opportunities for undergraduate research, teaching, and outreaching facilities. M.Phil and Ph.D degree programs are offered in the disciplines of Animal Breeding & Genetics, Livestock Management, Food & Nutrition, Poultry Production and Animal Products Technology. Graduate students are important to our society for a variety of reasons. They are an investment in our economy. They enhance workforce development. They better our standard of living by creating knowledge and advancing discoveries in research that benefits all of us. They serve as mentors and educators for undergraduates, thus directly affecting not only the quality of our graduate programs, but also that of our undergraduate ones. Graduate students inspire and encourage us to think critically and persevere in our quest for answers to even the most challenging questions. Opportunities for hands-on experience with poultry, small and large animals are being provided at state of the art facilities at Ravi campus, Pattoki in the areas of poultry nutrition, animal nutrition, animal breeding & genetics, molecular cytogenetics & genomics, poultry production, livestock management & housing and forage production.

Research is an important aspect of any high achieving institution, and at FAPT the environment, infrastructure and expertise provide visible proof of our commitment to research. We are dedicated to educating the next generation of leaders for the flat world of the global economy with student-centric, problem-based learning, focused on real challenges and applications. This faculty is also developing four out reach research and training centers i.e. Small Ruminants Training & Research Center, Ravi Campus Pattoki; Poultry & Dairy Animals Training and Research Center, Ravi Campus Pattoki; Dairy Training & Development Center, Ravi Campus, Pattoki; and Avain Research Center, Millat Campus Lahore. These centers will be developed for practical training & research on emerging issues of poultry, livestock, forage production, feed technology, dairy technology and value added animal products. These centers will facilitate human resource development in livestock & poultry sectors, which will lead to modernize livestock & poultry sectors by application of efficient locally tested technologies in housing & management, breed improvement, fodder & feed technologies and assist the industry for the production of export oriented animal products meeting WTO standards. The ultimate objective of development of these facilities is to produce a graduate meeting the expectations of the growing animal sector and having capabilities of self employment. Our faculty, staff and students are dedicated to excellence in teaching, research, service and outreach for the betterment of animals and people.
 

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdullah