INDIAN NATIONAL BREED ASSESSMENT AIMS TO BOOST MEAT QUALITY
January 1st, 2018
India has been identifying and registering all livestock breeds in the country, a process that could benefit the local meat industry with increased production and higher quality meat, Global Meat News (GMN) has been told.
“India has an enormous diversity of livestock and at every 200 to 300 km we find a different population of every species,” said Arjava Sharma, director of National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR) in Karnal, Haryana.
It runs a central government funded registration programme, under which the DNA profiling of a breed is done after ...
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