Union Minister for Animal Husbandry Giriraj Singh has said that the government is planning to introduce "sex-sorted semen" technology to ensure more female calves are born, in order to increase farmers' income.
"In the coming days, using insemination, the calves that will be born would only be female ones through (doses of) sex sorted semen," the minister said at an event organised by Mother Dairy in Nagpur.
In March, Uttarakhand became the country's first state to produce sex-sorted semen for cows, which can enhance the possibility of birth of female calves to ninety per cent.
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Singh also said that cows which stop producing milk will be made more productive through "IV embryo advanced technology".
The Uttar Pradesh government came up with an idea to control the menace of stray bulls by ensuring that they are never born.
In December 2019, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government approved a ¡®Sex Sorted Semen¡¯ scheme, under which chances of cows delivering a female calf are as high as 90-95 per cent.
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Shrikant Sharma, UP government spokesperson and Cabinet Minister, said that in the pilot project, of the 581 calves born, 522 were female. ¡°A success rate of around 90 per cent,¡± he said.
To avail of the scheme in UP, cattle-breeders would have to pay ?300 per conception, while in the drought-prone region of Bundelkhand, this levy would only be Rs 100.