{"id":142982,"date":"2021-10-25T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=142982"},"modified":"2021-10-25T19:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:33:03","slug":"indias-first-banni-buffalo-ivf-calf-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-banni-buffalo-ivf-calf-born\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s First Banni Buffalo IVF Calf Born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

India\u2019s first In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) calf of Banni breed of buffaloes was born at a farmer’s house in Gir Somnath district, Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are Banni Buffaloes?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Banni buffalo<\/span>es are also known as “Kutchi” or “Kundi”. It is a breed of buffalo found primarily in the <\/span>Kutch<\/span> district of <\/span>Gujarat<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This breed of buffaloes is usually bred and preserved by a local community found in Kutch, called the ‘<\/span>Maldharis<\/span>‘.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banni Buffaloes has higher milk production potentials and is also more disease resilient when compared to other common breeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are also well-adapted to survive extreme weather conditions such as water scarcity, frequent droughts, low humidity and high temperatures.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>: About Banni Grasslands<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Why were Banni Buffaloes chosen for IVF?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Banni buffalo is known for its higher milk-producing capacity in an arid environment. Hence, they were chosen to help the country to multiply the population of genetically superior buffaloes, resulting in higher milk yield.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>: Odisha: Koraput\u2019s Manda buffalo gets unique, indigenous tag<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
How was the IVF done?<\/b><\/h5>\n

An outstanding cow or buffalo in a Banni Buffalo herd was first identified as a donor following which its embryo is then matured artificially at a laboratory, fertilised with the best quality semen in test tubes and then transferred to a recipient cow or buffalo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>India\u2019s First Banni Buffalo IVF Calf Born<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on <\/span>24th October 2021.\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? India\u2019s first In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) calf of Banni breed of buffaloes was born at a farmer’s house in Gir Somnath district, Gujarat. What are Banni Buffaloes? Banni buffaloes are also known as “Kutchi” or “Kundi”. It is a breed of buffalo found primarily in the Kutch district of Gujarat. This… Continue reading India\u2019s First Banni Buffalo IVF Calf Born<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}