Chandigarh, October 6:
In a unique initiative to make the dairy business more profitable, increase the number of milch cattle and get rid of stray bulls, Milkfed will provide high quality sex-sorted semen to its milk producers, which will ensure that only female calves are produced. In this way population of female milch animals can be increased.
It was disclosed by the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Wednesday while releasing an informative broacher here at Milkfed Office. S. Randhawa was accompanied by Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, MLAs Surjit Singh Dhiman, Nathu Ram and Avtar Singh Bawa Henry and MD Milkfed Kamaldeep Singh Sangha and Extension Expert Inderjit Singh.
S. Randhawa said that by ensuring more female calves of high genetic potential, farmers will able to get more milk from their cows and buffaloes during their lifespan and also save extra expenditure being incurred on rearing of male calves. By curbing the menace of stray animals, crop loss and road accidents can be reduced.
MD Milkfed Kamaldeep Singh Sangha said that Verka has made available sex-sorted semen from progeny of high yielding Holstein Friesian cows with record of more than 15,000 liters of milk yield per lactation as well as of Jersey cows with recorded milk yield of 8300 liters per lactation, through Milk Producers Cooperative Societies in Punjab, which are providing Artificial Insemination service to its member producers.
S. Sangha also said that this sex-sorted semen for crossbred cows has been procured from superior genetic merit bulls of US, Canada, Germany and Denmark. For the intensive breed improvement of Murrah buffaloes and Sahiwal cows, the best semen available in the country is being provided to the milk producers associated with Verka.
MD Milkfed appealed to all the milk producers to contact either Artificial Insemination workers of their Milk Producers’ Cooperative Societies or the field staff of Milkfed to get the benefit of sex-sorted semen so that only high yielding female animals can be reared which will ultimately increase their profitability.
