Good productions as well as good reproduction are two essential elements for making the dairy farming/business a profitable one. A number of new reproductive technologies have been implemented for enhancing reproductive performances of dairy animals. Artificial insemination is one of the most important reproductive technologies implemented by the dairy industry. Artificial Insemination (AI) is very useful in a country like India where the availability of quality males (sires) is inadequate and has become the major hurdle in the way of dairy animals’ development.
As the name suggests, Artificial insemination (AI) is a technique in which sperm is collected from the male/bulls, processed, stored and manually introduced into the female reproductive tract at appropriate time for the purpose of conception. AI has become one of the most imperative techniques for the genetic improvement of farm animals since preferably the semen from genetically superior sires/males are used to inseminate the female animals artificially. It has been most extensively used for breeding dairy cattle and buffaloes. AI is the tool that possesses the potential of economic and rapid diffusion of elite males to a large number of females in a short duration of time over a large geographical area.
Artificial insemination (AI) is one of the most efficient tools accessible to dairy farmers to improve productivity and profitability of dairy enterprise. In artificial insemination the bulls of superior quality can be efficiently exploited with the least concern for their location in faraway places. There are a lot of advantages of AI over natural services with bulls. They are as follows:
Dairy farmers have numerous arguments against Artificial Insemination. In general, an AI program would need more intensive management of the herd like a sound nutrition program (cows in good body condition), good record keeping in the farm, an efficient herd health program, precise heat detection and a well-trained AI technician. Poor management in one or more of these fields might result in poorer success rates. Few major drawbacks of AI are mentioned below:
Source of Information : Rajalaxmi Behera*, Ajoy Mandal*, Adhikari Sahu**, Saroj Rai*, M. Karunakaran* and T. K. Dutta*
* ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, ERS, Kalyani, West Bengal
** ICAR- Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
जोबथा दाफामनाय : 2/12/2020
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