Chandigarh, May 16- Haryana Government is actively considering to import technology for sexed semen in buffaloes, which would enable the cattle breeders to have a choice for producing only female calves from their buffaloes.
A pilot project of USA’s patented technology of sexed semen has already shown encouraging results in the state and there is a huge demand of the sexed semen in cows as well as in buffaloes.
This was revealed in a meeting of Semen Bank Officers held under the chairmanship of Managing Director, Haryana Livestock Development Board, Dr. K.S. Dangi here today.
Dr Dangi also revealed that a state of the art Semen Production Station of international standard would soon be set up at Hisar.
The achievement for the year 2011-12 under various schemes implemented by the board were reviewed in the meeting. It was observed that three semen production stations of Haryana Livestock Development Board produced 9.95 lakh frozen semen doses of cow bulls and 28.42 lakh doses of Buffalo Bulls semen during 2011-12. A target for the year 2012-2013 for frozen semen doses to the tune of 13.60 lakh for cow bull semen and 34 lakh for buffalo bulls semen was fixed. Haryana is a prime source of Murrah germplasm in the country and supplies frozen semen doses of quality Murrah bulls to many other states in addition to the cattle breeders in the state itself.
The progress of Field Progeny Testing Programme (FPTP) being carried out in six Murrah districts that is Rohtak, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Hisar, Jind and Sonepat was reviewed and found satisfactory. It was informed that the third set of test matings of the semen from 25 bulls is under progress in the state. Test matings for first and second sets have already been accomplished and their progeny are being identified by way of tagging of the female calves and after a period of three years the sires will be ranked on the basis of milk yield performance of the progeny born out from these test matings.
The progress of milk cess collection was also reviewed and it was observed that more efforts are required for collection of cess from the registered milk plants.
In the meeting, Dr. Dangi emphasized the need to implement the schemes like National Programme on Cattle and Buffalo Breeding and Livestock Insurance Scheme with utmost sincerity and every effort should be made to benefit livestock owners of the state.