{"id":218049,"date":"2022-12-12T19:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218049"},"modified":"2022-12-12T19:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:02:44","slug":"uttarakhand-plans-genetic-enhancement-of-its-indigenous-badri-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uttarakhand-plans-genetic-enhancement-of-its-indigenous-badri-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand plans genetic enhancement of its indigenous Badri cow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cUttarakhand plans genetic enhancement of its indigenous Badri cow\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 11th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uttarakhand Government is planning for genetic enhancement of Badri Cow through sex-sorted semen and embryo transfer technology with the aim to increase its productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Badri Cow?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Badri breed derived its name from the holy shrine of Char Dham at Badrinath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is found only in the hill districts of Uttarakhand and was earlier known as the \u2018pahadi\u2019 cow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Characteristics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The cattle breed is small in size with long legs and varied body colours\u2014 black, brown, red, white or grey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Unique qualities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The uniqueness of Badri cow\u2019s produce is indigenousness and environment (in the Himalayas), as it eats medicinal herbs and is far away from toxic pollution, polythene and other harmful things that cows in the plains are subject to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The milk also has rich medicinal content and high organic value as it grazes only on herbs and shrubs available in the mountains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It is also comparatively more resistant to diseases, mostly due to its eating habits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This cattle of Uttarakhand clinched the coveted title of being the<\/span><b> first certified cattle breed of Uttarakhand <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after the National Bureau Of Animal Genetic Resource included it as Badri breed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cUttarakhand plans genetic enhancement of its indigenous Badri cow\u201d published in The Hindu on 11th December 2022 What is the News? Uttarakhand Government is planning for genetic enhancement of Badri Cow through sex-sorted semen and embryo transfer technology with the aim to increase its productivity. What is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uttarakhand-plans-genetic-enhancement-of-its-indigenous-badri-cow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uttarakhand plans genetic enhancement of its indigenous Badri cow<\/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":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-218049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703880224},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218049","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=218049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}