Bhubaneswar: Manda Buffalo, who looks at the Bukit Range of East Ghats and the coraput area in the state, registered at the national level.
It accepted the accession number ‘India_Buffalo_1500_Manda_01019’ to become a 19th recognized buffalo commotion in India.
This buffalo nutfah plasma was first identified by the Department of Fisheries and Resource Resources Development (Fard) in collaboration with the University of Agriculture and Odisha Technology (OUAT).
After conducting a detailed survey, the findings were sent to the National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR) for the recognition of the original Buffalo-Manda original at the national level.
After this registration, the state and the center will make efforts to save buffalo genetic resources that are unique from Odisha and increase their productivity through breeding strategies.
The government will help market dairy, curd and ghee products with premium prices that produce an increase in stakeholder livelihoods in the original channel.
The survey was conducted in 2009 under the leadership of Bishnupada Sethi, then the director of animal husbandry and animal services and Susanta Kumar Dash, professors in animal breeding and genetics, OUAT.
Dash said Manda Buffalo came from Odisha and had gray and gray gray with copper color hair.
The bottom of their feet to the brightly colored elbow with copper hair in the knee.
Some silver-white animals, he added.
This sturdy buffalo is small.
People use buffalo men and women to hijack and other agricultural surgery on the original channel of Koraput, Malkangiri and Nabarangpur Regency.
“These animals are resistant to parasitic infections and are less susceptible to diseases and can live, produce and reproduce on low input systems / nil,” Dash said.
About one buffalo lakh of this type is in the state.
In addition to agricultural operations, this buffalo contributes to the nutrition of household families for generations.
The results of this average buffalo milk are 2 to 2.5 liters in the single milking with more than eight percent fat.
However, some yields of up to four liters.
“This buffalo is cooked in about three years and dropped the first calf about four years.
Every 1.5 to 2 years they gave birth to a life for a lifetime of around 20 years,” said Professor.
It has been two Breed Buffalo (Chilika and Lingdom), four livestock breeds (Binjharpuri, Motu, Ghumusari and Kharia), and one race of sheep (Lamb Kendrapada) has been registered at the previous national level.
Binjharpuri cement production and use through artificial insemination is an extraordinary achievement in the country in the field of conservation process, an official said from the Fard Department.
Buffalo Manda Odisha received national recognition
