The District Livestock Farm, Hosur (or Hosur Cattle Farm) is a

demonstration farm A demonstration farm, or model farm, is a farm which is used primarily to research or demonstrate various agricultural techniques, with any economic gains being an added bonus. Demonstration farms are often owned and operated by educational instit ...

Hosur Hosur is an industrial city located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Hosur is one of the municipal corporations in Tamil Nadu. It is located on the bank of the river River Ponnaiyar, southeast of Bengaluru and west of Chennai, the state ...

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. The farm covers 1,641.41 acres and raises

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and other

livestock Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals ...

. The farm raises

Red Sindhi cattle Red Sindhi cattle are the most popular of all Zebu dairy breeds. The breed originated in the Sindh province of Pakistan, they are widely kept for milk production across Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and other countries. They have be ...

and Kangeyam cattle in order to "encourage pure breeding and to preserve native breeds." The Farm has an embryo transfer laboratory. Embryos from Red Sindhi cows are collected by multiple ovulation and embryo transfer technology and are transferred to cross-bred recipient cows by non-surgical method. These recipient cows will carry the fetus till the rest of pregnancy and deliver the calf. So far, 286 calves have been produced through embryo transfer technology at this farm and field. Embryo transfer programme is also carried out in 15 districts from this embryo transfer unit. In the next project, indigenous calves like Red Sindhi, Kangayam, Pulikulam, Bargur, and Umbalachery will be produced through embryo transfer and IVF technologies at the farm. Apart from these projects, pure

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and HF embryos have been imported and transferred to the recipient cows at the Government Livestock farms at

Chettinadu Chettinad (also known as Chettinadu) is a region located mainly in the Sivaganga district historically ruled by Ramnad kingdom of Pandya Nadu and has a small portion extending into the Pudukottai District in Tamil Nadu, India..Karaikudi and ...

, Pudukottai and Naduvur. Twenty imported frozen pure Jersey embryos were transferred to crossbred cows and ten became pregnant.

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