Artificial insemination improves cattle breed

The Rajshahi Regional Artificial Insemination (AI) Laboratory has been playing vital role towards improving cattle breeds besides fulfilling the region’s increasing demands of proteins like meat and milk.

Established on 10 acres of land at Rajabarihat under Godagari upazila of the district in 2014, the laboratory is producing deep liquid semen and liquid nitrogen and transferring those among the farmers at an affordable price.

Fisheries of Livestock Secretary Roisul Alam Mondal visited the AI Laboratory yesterday to witness the activities being done there. He stressed the need for more intensive research on the genetic factors of domestic animals for generating more high-milking cows.

“If the high-breed cow can give 50 litre milk per day so why not the others,” he added. Director General of Directorate of Livestock Services Dr Hiresh Ranjan Bhowmik and its Rajshahi Divisional Deputy Director Kolyan Kumar Fouzder and Assistant Director (Animal Production) of District Artificial Insemination Centre Ismail Haque, among others concerned, accompanied the secretary.

“We are preserving high quality semen from cattle after importing the specimens from abroad through the laboratory,” said Ismail Haque while talking to BSS on the issue. More than 4.87 lakh doses of semen were collected from 30 genotype bulls and 3.08 lakh out of total 5.84 lakh cows including 1.81 lakh cross-breeds were inseminated with the collected semen in the region comprising Rajshahi, Natore, Naogaon and Chapainawabganj in last 2018-19 fiscal, he added.

Various requisite infrastructures including two bull-sheds with capacity of 27 bulls, two bull-calves-sheds with capacity of 54 calves, one semen-collection shed and four fodder plots measuring 1.5 acres to produce high-yielding and nutritive fodder for the bulls and calves were developed in addition to the two-storied frozen semen laboratory cum office building.

 

Artificial insemination improves cattle breed

The Rajshahi Regional Artificial Insemination (AI) Laboratory has been playing vital role towards improving cattle breeds besides fulfilling the regions increasing demands of proteins like meat and milk. Established on 10 acres of land at Rajabarihat under Godagari upazila of the district in 2014, the laboratory is producing deep liquid semen and liquid nitrogen and transferring those among the farmers at an affordable price. Fisheries of Livestock Secretary Roisul Alam Mondal visited the AI Laboratory yesterday to witness the activities being done there. He stressed the need for more intensive research on the genetic factors of domestic animals for generating more high-milking cows. If the high-breed cow can give 50 litre milk per day so why not the others, he added. Director General of Directorate of Livestock Services Dr Hiresh Ranjan Bhowmik and its Rajshahi Divisional Deputy Director Kolyan Kumar Fouzder and Assistant Director (Animal Production) of District Artificial Insemination Centre Ismail Haque, among others concerned, accompanied the secretary. We are preserving high quality semen from cattle after importing the specimens from abroad through the laboratory, said Ismail Haque while talking to BSS on the issue. More than 4.87 lakh doses of semen were collected from 30 genotype bulls and 3.08 lakh out of total 5.84 lakh cows including 1.81 lakh cross-breeds were inseminated with the collected semen in the region comprising Rajshahi, Natore, Naogaon and Chapainawabganj in last 2018-19 fiscal, he added. Various requisite infrastructures including two bull-sheds with capacity of 27 bulls, two bull-calves-sheds with capacity of 54 calves, one semen-collection shed and four fodder plots measuring 1.5 acres to produce high-yielding and nutritive fodder for the bulls and calves were developed in addition to the two-storied frozen semen laboratory cum office building.