Following the deaths of 10 buffaloes at Lake Nakuru National Park, vaccination to combat the deadly anthrax disease kicked off Thursday morning at Naishi in Molo. County Director of Veterinary Services Mr Enos Amunynzu said the exercise will continue until the disease is contained. He said they would cover Solai, …
The woolly marvel A sheep, Dolly, was the first to be cloned 15 years ago. Since then, Snappy (dog), CC (cat) and Garima and Samrupra (buffaloes) have been cloned in South Korea, US and India. Cloning technology now can pre-determine the gender Handmade procedure followed in Kashmir said to be …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has found holes in implementation of Haryana's ambitious livestock breeding policy for genetic upgradation of indigenous cattle. The CAG has also found that the State is missing target of setting up Hi-Tech Commercial Dairies. Haryana, famous for its high-yielding Murrah breed of …
SIVASAGAR: The Panidihing Reserve Forest which spread over 33.9 Sq km in Demow Circle of Sivasagar District was illegally occupied by the encroachers like cow and buffalo rearers and fishermen since late 1970’s. After long reports of complaint for more than three decades by nature lovers and concerned citizens, the …
A wildlife survey for the critically endangered Malabar Civet has led to the “first authenticated sighting” of an adult tigress near Athirumala, between Neyyar and Peppara wildlife reserves, almost 60 km northeast of the capital city. P.K. Jayakumar Sharma, Wildlife Warden, Neyyar, said wildlife researcher A. Mathews Nixon Armstrong had …
The Bangalore-based Project Directorate on Animal Disease Monitoring and Surveillance (PDADMAS) has developed a Web-based interactive software to predict livestock diseases two months in advance in the country. PDADMAS functions under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and has been forecasting animal diseases. Diseases As part of this project, …
Wild water buffaloes (Bubalus arnee) are categorized as endangered on the IUCN Red List. With a global population of less than 4,000, the species has a very limited distribution spanning over less than 20,000 km² in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Bhutan. In Nepal, Koshi Tappu Wildlife …
Former Tamil Nadu Governor and Union Agriculture Minister, Surjeet Singh Barnala today called upon 10 dairy scientists to ensure that the research in the dairy sector was transferred to farmers, which could help them increase the milk production and yield. Inaugurating a two-day workshop of leading dairy scientists at the …
Cameroon and Chad have signed an accord to ramp up efforts to fight poachers who kill hundreds of elephants a year in a protected park on their common border, ministers from both nations said. Both central African countries suffer from rampant poaching of elephants and other species for ivory headed …
On Tuesday in a ceremony in Rome, the United Nations is officially declaring that for only the second time in history, a disease has been wiped off the face of the earth. Everyone has heard of smallpox. Very few have heard of the runner-up. That
GURGAON: The per capita availability of milk in Haryana has increased to 680 grams per day as compared to the national average of 258 grams. A spokesman of the Haryana animal husbandry and dairy department said that the milk production in the state has increased to 62.67 lakh tonnes. The …
India will make all-out efforts to shrug off the danger tag from the famous Manas National Park at the World Heritage Committee meeting in Paris by highlighting the success story of the sanctuary, which was plagued by rampant poaching and activities of rebel groups, reports PTI. The 35th session of …
Jorhat, May 20: A mini-Kaziranga is in the making on a sandbar along the Brahmaputra in northwest Jorhat. A herd of wild buffaloes have been sighted inside Molai Kathonibari, a wooded area 16km from Jorhat town, for the first time. The area already has a sizeable population of deer, a …
Jorhat, The increasing number of wild buffaloes in Kaziranga National Park has given rise to the problem of serious food and territory crisis among the herbivorous animals living in the sanctuary. The buffalo population has dangerously overshadowed the population of the carnivorous animals. The population of the wild buffalo in …
Sirsa: Gurmeet Kaur is semi-literate. A home-maker, she had no contribution to her family income till she joined a training programme organised by the Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Department. Now, with 20 milch cattle purchased with the help of bank loan, she runs a hi-tech dairy in the village, …
Alternative strategy in the drive to achieve food security Ksheeraganga has a subsidy component of Rs.9 crore Plan to produce an additional 135 lakh litres of milk a year Thiruvananthapuram: Decades back, buffaloes ambling along the city roads used to be a regular sight. With reclamation of wetlands and fragmentation …
VET COLLEGE : PETA steps in after students complain; class put on hold, then goes ahead For years, the anatomy course at the Bombay Veterinary College has included the dissection of a buffalo calf on the Goregaon campus. On Tuesday, after the intervention of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals …
CUTTACK: The famous Binjharpuri, Motu, Ghumsuri and Khariar cattle as well as the Chilika buffalo of Orissa have finally gained recognition as indigenous breeds of the country. The enlisting of the four breeds of the State for the first time in the National Registry by the National Bureau of Animal …
