Georgia celebrates World Veterinary Day

Georgia: The National Food Agency organized the professional day, supported by the USDA-SQIL project “Investing in Safe and Quality Livestock.” Veterinarians celebrated the day with a nationwide conference. 

Participants discussed the priorities for 2024 and discussed new regulations and approaches to various diseases. Deputy Minister of Environment and Agriculture Kakha Kakabadze addressed the audience with a welcoming speech.

“On behalf of the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture, I congratulate our veterinarians on their professional day. Veterinarians of the National Food Agency perform the most important job – they perform more than 6 million manipulations a year and make a serious contribution to the health of animals and, therefore, humans,” Kakha Kakabadze noted.

 Zurab Chekurashvili, the head of the National Food Agency, congratulated the veterinarians on a professional day and thanked the agency’s specialists for their work to ensure episodic reliability in the country.

Guests invited to the conference heard presentations on topics such as 2024—Year of Enhanced Approach to Identification-Registration, Primary Production Questionnaire, Aflatoxin Control, Control of Infectious Diseases under the State Program, and New Regulations and Approaches to Brucellosis, Tuberculosis, and Leukemia.

The event was organized by the Parliamentary Committee for Environment and Natural Resources, Committee for Agrarian Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Agriculture and its departments – National Food Agency, Scientific Research Center, Agricultural State Laboratory, Tbilisi Monitoring Agency, Revenue Service, US Department of Agriculture, International Two Organizations, Academy of Sciences, Non-governmental sector, field associations Representatives, vets, farmers and students were present.

World Veterinary Day was established in 2000 on the initiative of the World Veterinary Association and is celebrated annually on the last Saturday of April. 

The day’s goal is to promote the profession, recognize and appreciate veterinarians’ significant contributions to public health care, and raise awareness of it. 

This year’s message is: “Veterinarian – an important role in unified healthcare,” which highlights the role of this field in ensuring the health and well-being of animals and humans.

The USDA-SQIL project is implemented by the American organization Land O’Lakes Venture37, in partnership with the Georgian Farmers’ Association, with the financial support of the American Department of Agriculture (USDA).