An additional clone was born in India

India launched the cloning of Garima-II in an effort to replicate the buffalo herd for its high milk yield. The cloned caliph was just released on August 23 at the Karnal National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) in the state of Haryana.

Crush Garima-II. (Source: The Financial Express)

The director of the NDRI, AKSrivastava, said the institute used new and modern techniques to duplicate Garima-II training and this is a significant step forward in the effort to replicate buffaloes for India's high milk yield.

Although India has the largest number of buffaloes in the world and buffalo milk accounts for 55% of the country's milk production, the number of buffaloes for milking productivity is very low. Therefore, the need to strengthen buffalo herds for high milking productivity is very urgent and the effective solution for this problem is to use humanized methods because the number of good bull breeds is very rare.

The first cloned clerk at the NDRI hospital, born in February 2009, died on the same day due to pneumonia. The second replication failed. The third replication was released in June 2009 the world's first calf born with this method is called Garima-I.

Mr. S. Ayyappan, General Director of India Agricultural Research Council, affirmed that the cloning method will open a new era to promote the rapid replication of buffaloes for high milking productivity to meet demand. milk is increasing due to population growth.

Of India's 100 million cattle, there are about 47 million buffaloes, of which 45 million are of different local buffaloes and most of them are mixed.

It is forecasted that due to population growth, India's milk demand will increase to 170 million tons / year from 105 million tons today.