Page 1 - NBAGR NEWSLETTER VOL 16 No 1 (OCT 2019 - JUNE 2020)

DEDICATED TO ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES OF INDIA

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October 2019 - June 2020

Highlights of this

Issue…

From the Director’s Desk • Registration of new breeds

• Gazette notification of all breeds of
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registered. We need to divert our research in this direction to characterize most of
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much true to the exhaustive documentation of all five years. Cryopreserved
mandate and endeavors of available germplasm in germplasm would be
the ICAR-National Bureau of the country, NBAGR has utilized as conservation and
Animal Genetic Resources planned to undertake recreation of a breed in case
(NBAGR). Over the past the characterization and of any exigency arising in
few years, The Bureau has documentation of entire future. For exploration of
had a glorious journey of native livestock and poultry genetic potential of native 5344 GI/2019 (1)

characterizing, evaluating, covering all districts and breeds at the genomic • Identifying new livestock

conserving and documenting states in the next 5 years. level and genomic selection
the AnGR of our country. The work for documentation procedures, DNA Chips populations
In last 10 years, total 101 of native germplasm has specific to indigenous cattle • Risk of Ladakhi donkey
native breeds/ populations already been initiated in all and buffalo breeds have • Creation of DNA Chips for
have been documented, eight North-Eastern states of also been created. indigenous cattle and buffalo
the country in collaboration
of which 31 during last 3 with various State Animal Sky is the limit. With this, • Patent on parentage verification in
years. Total 68 native breeds Husbandry departments. I put-forth this issue of buffaloes
have been registered in 10 Such effort would also yield the Newsletter to our
years including 37 in last 3 in identification of unique readers and stakeholders • Sensitization meetings in NEH
years. Germplasm in form populations which are of livestock sector, which region
of semen, somatic cells, homogenous and unique offers summary glimpse • Breed Conservation Award
embryo of 54 breeds was and shall form potential of the achievements of
cryopreserved and In-situ breeds. It is expected that ICAR-NBAGR during Oct, ICAR-NATIONAL BUREAU OF
conservation of 27 native the intervention shall yield 2019 to June, 2020. I am
breeds was carried out till about 100 more breeds of confident that readers ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES
date. Despite this, we still native livestock and poultry. will be benefitted by the PB No. 129, G.T. Road By-Pass, Near Basant
have a long way to go to Cryopreservation of the current issue and we hope Vihar, Karnal-132 001 (HARyANA) INDIA
exhaustively characterize germplasm of remaining to receive suggestions for its Tel. 0184-2267918, Fax: 0184-2267654
and evaluate the existing native breeds in country improvement in future.
livestock and poultry all breeds of livestock and Email: director.nbagr@icar.gov.in,
diversity of the country. poultry species shall be [R.K. Vijh] directornbagr@gmail.com
Website: www.nbagr.res.in