Source:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
The Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited, popularly known as Amul Dairy, on Friday inaugurated its modernized semen station at Ode village, some 19 km Anand.
The semen station run by Amul Dairy’s sister concern – Amul Research and Development Association (ARDA) – was established in 1984. The semen freezing laboratory is equipped with ultramodern equipments and separate quality control laboratory constructed under phase one of National Dairy Plan of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) from Rs 9.54 crore grant to take care of the quality control measures for semen production.
“The semen station has produced and preserved 3.2 million doses of elite pure bred and cross-bred bulls. Currently, the semen station maintains 160 bulls and has capacity to produce 3.2 million of semen doses and targeting to produce 5 million doses per year in near future,” Amul Dairy’s managing director Dr K Rathnam told TOI.
Amul’s semen station maintains and produces frozen semen doses from high pedigreed bulls of Murrah buffalo, pure HF, cross bred (HF x Sahiwal, Gir, Kankrej), pure Gir. “Soon pure sahiwal will be introduced considering the demand of the farmers,” he said. “We are willing to expand semen doses marketing plan across the untapped areas of the country,” he said.
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