Breakthroughs

Breakthroughs since 2021 onwards

• Registered 42 indigenous breeds, characterized 60 populations, and cryopreserved germplasm of 97 breeds, including 23 threatened breeds.

• Registered synthetic breeds and developed three improved chicken varieties; distributed 78.82 lakh units of poultry germplasm.

• Produced India’s first cloned cattle (Ganga), cloned buffalo (Karnika), and pioneering horse and Marwari filly through advanced reproductive technologies.

• Developed cattle and buffalo genomic chips, IndiChick SNP chip, buffalo fertility chip, and CRISPR-edited buffalo embryos.

• Developed 40 region-specific feeding modules and 70 value-added animal-origin products and processes.

• Developed 21 livestock and poultry vaccines and 22 vaccine candidates and 25 diagnostic kits including a commercialized lumpy skin disease vaccine.

• Screened over 12 lakh animals and poultry and issued monthly disease alerts to more than 25 lakhs farmers for 15 economically important diseases.

• Produced 24.25 lakh semen doses elite cattle and buffalo.

• Published 5,758 research papers and secu 80 patents.

• Conducted over 2,500 capacity-building programmes, supported more than 2 lakh beneficiaries, and developed 12 milk/meat quality-detection kits benefiting an estimated 2 crore consumers.