Set up
Animal Science Division of ICAR coordinates and monitors research activities in its 19 Research Institutes and their Regional Centers. Deputy Director-General (Animal Sciences) is the Head of the Division assisted by three Assistant Director Generals (ADGs) in disciplines of Animal Health, Animal Production & Breeding and Animal Nutrition and Physiology and supported by three Senior Scientists. The work on dairy and animal products technology is also being looked after by ADG (AP&B). The Division has 3 national research institutes out of which 2 are deemed universities, 4 Central Research Institutes, 01 National Bureau, 4 Project Directorates and 6 National Research Centers and a National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research. The division coordinates 7 All India Coordinated Research Projects and 7 Network Research Programmes in different parts of the country apart from several ad-hoc projects at different ICAR institutes and State Agricultural Universities.
Vision
Development of technologies to support production enhancement, profitability, competitiveness and sustainability of livestock and poultry sector for food and nutritional security.
Mission
Facilitate need based research in livestock and poultry sector in ongoing and emerging areas to support productivity increase, reducing the gap between potential and actual yield and to prepare the country to face the challenges of globalization.
Thrust Areas
- Molecular Signatures for indigenous livestock resources.
- Embryonic losses and improvement in reproductive efficiency.
- Exploitation of genetic resistance through marker assisted selection for disease management.
- Buffalo and goat genomics
- Stem cell research for animal health and production
- Improvement of utilization of low quality roughages through in vivo and in vitro manipulations
- Biochemical markers to assess the micronutrient status of animals
- Probiotics/ prebiotics in enhancing nutrient utilization
- Manipulation of Green house gases emission from livestock
- Development of diagnostics and immuno prophylactics for various diseases using biotech & nanotech tools.
- Pharmacogenomics & dynamics of new generation and indigenous drug formulatons.
- Transgenic chicken and pigs for pharmaceutical production.
- Residual analysis of environmental and industrial pollutants; mycotoxin and mycotoxicosis.
- Development and improvement of processing technologies for value addition, shelf life enhancement and quality assurance of livestock products.
- Designer/ dietetic livestock products for better health.
- Livestock production economics and marketing.
Strengths
Manpower
Total number of Scientists as per cadre strength: 1044
Total number of Scientists in position : 780
Infrastructure
Farm and animals
Research farms for cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig, camel, equine, yak, mithun, rabbit and poultry in species specific institutes spread over the country.
Laboratories
State of the art laboratories for carrying out basic and strategic research in cutting edge technologies in the areas of animal genetics and breeding, nutrition, physiology and reproduction, animal health and animal products technology.
Specialized facilities
Bio-safety and bio-containment laboratories, nuclear laboratories, semen evaluation and quality control, residue analysis, feed analysis / quality control, embryo transfer laboratories, molecular biology, rumen biotechnology, milk and milk product processing unit, meat and meat processing unit, model dairy plant, vaccine production unit, germplasm and DNA banks.
Human Resource Development
Two deemed universities offer under graduate, post graduate and doctoral degree programs in various disciplines of veterinary, animal sciences and dairy science. Also offers national diploma. For details visit www.ndri.nic.in and www.ivri.nic.in
Advanced tailor made training programs are offered for researchers, extension personnel, teachers, students and farmers periodically. For details contact species specific institutes through website.
National and International Collaboration
Collaborative programs in some of the advanced areas in animal science disciplines like biotechnology and molecular biology are taken up with premier National and International Institutions.
Achievements
In Animal Production
- Crossbred strains of cattle, Karan Swiss, Karan Fries and Frieswal for high milk production
- Layer productivity enhanced to 300 eggs / per year / per bird
- Broiler body weight increased to 1.5 kg in 35 days
- Graded Murrah buffaloes with 2200 kg milk yield per/lactation
- Dual purpose poultry strains for rural farming
- Artificial insemination in mithun, yak, camel, goats, pig and equines
- Molecular and phenotypic characterization of indigenous livestock and poultry germplasm
- Conservation techniques for various livestock and poultry germplasms
- Improved strains of sheep for fine wool, carpet wool and mutton
- Shelter management for small ruminants
Animal Nutrition and Physiology
• Data base on Animal feed resources for different agro-climatic zones of the country
Soybean cake availability(000 tonnes) in different districts of Madhya Prades
• Area specific mineral mixture for different agro-ecological zones
• Complete feed blocks using locally available unconventional feed
- Cost effective detoxification technologies for oil cakes
- By-pass nutrient technology for high yielding bovines
- Urea-ammonization for improving utilization of poor quality roughages
- Bio-availability of micronutrients from different sources
- Designed and developed feeding mangers for small ruminants
- Crystoscope for timely heat detection in cattle and buffalo
- Embryo transfer technology in buffaloes, sheep, cattle, goat and yak
- Hormonal-modulation protocols to increase egg production
- Diagnostic kits for early pregnancy in equines.
Animal Health
- Eradication of Rinderprest in India
- Indigenous technology for foot and mouth disease vaccine production
- Live attenuated vaccine for sheep and goat plague (PPR)
- Diagnosed avian influenza and controlled it by continuous surveillance
- Vaccine against avian influenza using indigenous strains
- Technical and scientific support to National FMD control programme
- Hundred percent import substitution for FMD diagnosis and control
- Diagnostic and Vaccine for equine virus infection.
- Diagnostic kit for GI parasites
In Animal Products Technology
- Low cholesterol ghee
- Mango Lassi with long shelf life
- Ghee, fortified with herbs
- Indigenous technology for production of rasmalai, kulfi, kheer mix, gulab jamun mix with longer shelf life
- Adopted and modified traditional milk products technology like kunda for commercial production
- Various poultry meat products like chicken chunkalona from spent hen, chicken idli, nuggets, patties, pickle and kababs
Commercialization of technologies
- Area specific mineral mixture for different agro-ecological zones and complete feed block using non conventional feed resources.
- PPR vaccine
- FMD and HS adjoined oil vaccine.
- Equine influenza vaccine.
- Thermostable IBD vaccine.
- EHP 1 vaccine.
- Diagnostic kits for FMD surveillance
- By pass protein technology for high yielding cattle
- Hormonal modulation for increasing egg production
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Institutional Links
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Indian Veterinary
Research Institute, Izzatnagar |
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National
Dairy Research Institute, Karnal |
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Central
Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar |
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Central
Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar |
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Central
Institute for Research on Goats, Mathura |
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Central
Sheep & Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar |
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National
Institute of Animal Nutrition & Physiology,
Bangalore |
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National
Bureaue of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal |
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NRC on
Camel, Bikaner, Rajasthan |
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NRC for
Equines, Hisar, Haryana |
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NRC
on Meat & Meat Products, CRIDA Campus,
Hyderabad |
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NRC on
Mithun, ICAR Research Complex, Nagaland |
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NRC
on Pigs, Nagaland |
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NRC on Yak,
Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh |
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National
Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy
Research, IASRI Campus, New Delhi |
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Project
directorate on Cattle, Modipuram, Meerut, Uttar
Pradesh |
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Project
Directorate on Poultry, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh |
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PD
on Animal Disease Monitoring & Surveillance,
Bangalore, Karnataka |
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PD
on Foot & Mouth Disease, IVRI Campus,
Mukteshwar |
All
India Coordinated Research Projects
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AICRP
on Goat Improvement, CIRG, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Cattle, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Pigs, Guwahati |
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AICRP
on Poultry Breeding, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh |
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AICRP
on Foot &Mouth disease, IVRI, Mukteshwar, Uttranchal |
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AICRP
on Animal Disease Monitoring and Surveilance,
Institute of Animal Health and Veterinary
Biology, Bangalore |
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AICRP
on Improvement of Feed Resources and Nutrient Utilization in
Raising Animal Production, Bangalore |
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Network Project
on Sheep Improvement, Avikanagar, Rajasthan |
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Network
Project on Buffaloes Improvement, Hisar, Haryana |
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Network Project
on Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal, Haryana |
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Network on
Haemorrhagic Septicaemia, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh |
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Network Project
on Gastro Intestinal Parasitism, Izatnagar,
Uttar Pradesh |
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Network on
Bluetongue Disease, Izatnagar, Uttar
Pradesh |
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Network
Project on R&D Support for Process Upgradation of Indegenous Milk
Products for Indistrial Application, Karnal |
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