Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes information

Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar
Type	Public
Established	1 February 1985
Affiliation	India Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Academic affiliations	ICAR
Budget	INR
Director	Tirth Kumar Dutta
Academic staff	158
Administrative staff	20
Postgraduates	13
Doctoral students	8
Location	Hisar, Haryana, India; 29°11′09″N 75°42′10″E / 29.1858°N 75.7028°E
Campus	Hisar (main), Bir Dosanjh (Nabha sub-campus)
Website	www.cirb.res.in

Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar, a publicly funded, institute for water buffalo research. It is located 170 kilometres (110 mi) from Delhi, at Hisar in the north Indian state of Haryana.^[2]^[3] It has a sub-campus, Bir Dosanjh, at Nabha. CIRB operates a nationwide network of 10 research centres working on breed improvement of the 7 main native breeds. CIRB, with over 20 laboratories for buffalo research, is the world's largest buffalo research institute with the widest range of breeds under study. With the aim of improving breeds and dissemination of information, CIRB has sold over 1,000 bulls, conducted ~200,000 artificial insemination in the field for the farmers' buffaloes with a 41% conception rate, distributed ~520,000 progeny tested frozen semen kits to 45,000 farmers and over 250 institutes, imparted training to several thousand farmers on advanced buffalo husbandry, and created the world's first online Buffalopedia in several languages. It has a large research partner network across India and the globe. It is the second institute to successfully clone a buffalo in 2016, after the first successful cloning was achieved by the National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal in 2010.^[4] In July 2017, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research ranked CIRB Hisar as India's number one Buffalo research institute for the year 2016–17.^[5]

India has 58% the world's buffaloes and 35% of India's cattle are buffaloes. Buffalo milk is 70% of the total milk yield in India, with its national gross domestic product (GDP) share being larger than wheat and rice combined. Buffalo meat makes up 86% of India's total meat exports, earning INR 26,000 crore (US$4 billion) in 2013–14.^[6] CIRB makes high-quality semen available for buffalo breeding at a very low cost to India's farmers. Semen and buffaloes, particularly the Murrah buffalo, are exported to other nations worldwide for the improvement of the breed.^[7]^[8]

In January 2019, Haryana has 3,600,000 cattle (2,100,00 buffaloes and 1,500,000 cows) and state govt is making efforts to raise the average daily production to 10 liter per milch animal from the existing 6.8 liter, which compares poorly to global best practices such as 15 litres in Australia, 16 litres in New Zealand and 30 litres in Israel.^[9]^[10] MoU have been signed with Brazil to improve the cattle breed through Embryo transfer technique and another with Israel for milk production through genetic engineering, cattle feed improvement, cold chain and other technologies.^[10]

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference annr1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ CIRB website
^ Mohammad, A.; Munir, A.; Rehman, H. (2007). Fifty Years of Indian Agriculture. Concept Publishing Company. p. 245. ISBN 978-81-8069-360-1.
^ Cite error: The named reference CR3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "लुवास का भैंस फार्म देश का सर्वश्रेष्ठ केंद्र घोषित (Hisar LUVAS Buffalo farm best in the nation).", Dainik Jagran, 25 July 2017.
^ Singh, C. V. and R. S. Barwal (2010). Buffalo Breeding Research and Improvement Strategies in India. Pages 1024–1031 in The Buffalo in the World Archived 13 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Training on Advanced Buffalo Husbandry organized at CIRB, Hisar
^ Syed Mohmad Shah, Manmohan Singh Chauhan. 2017 Reproduction in Buffalo: Natural and assisted reproductive techniques, Notion Press, Chennai. ISBN 1946556440
^ Livestock exhibition fair inaugurated in Jhajjar, India.com, 22 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b Livestock fair with a difference, The Tribune, 12 January 2019.

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[CR1-2] CIRB website

[CR4-3] Mohammad, A.; Munir, A.; Rehman, H. (2007). Fifty Years of Indian Agriculture. Concept Publishing Company. p. 245. ISBN 978-81-8069-360-1.

[CR3-4] Cite error: The named reference CR3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[jagran1-5] "लुवास का भैंस फार्म देश का सर्वश्रेष्ठ केंद्र घोषित (Hisar LUVAS Buffalo farm best in the nation).", Dainik Jagran, 25 July 2017.

[Singh2010-6] Singh, C. V. and R. S. Barwal (2010). Buffalo Breeding Research and Improvement Strategies in India. Pages 1024–1031 in The Buffalo in the World Archived 13 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine.

[CR2-7] Training on Advanced Buffalo Husbandry organized at CIRB, Hisar

[CR5-8] Syed Mohmad Shah, Manmohan Singh Chauhan. 2017 Reproduction in Buffalo: Natural and assisted reproductive techniques, Notion Press, Chennai. ISBN 1946556440

[harcow1-9] Livestock exhibition fair inaugurated in Jhajjar, India.com, 22 December 2018.

[tech1-10] Livestock fair with a difference, The Tribune, 12 January 2019.

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