Fifteen New Breeds of Indigenous Farm Animals Registered by NBAGR Karnal

Pashu Sandesh, 05 October 2019

ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal (NBAGR) is the nodal agency for the registration of newly identified germplasm of livestock and poultry of the country. Newly identified breeds are approved by Breed Registration Committee of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) headed by Deputy Director General (Animal Sciences), ICAR and represented by National Biopersity Authority, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries (GoI), ADGs (ICAR), Directors of ICARs species-specific animal science institutes and NBAGR.

Breed registration Committee in its meeting held on 5th September 2018 at New Delhi approved the registration of fifteen new breeds of livestock and poultry. This includes two breeds of cattle, three of buffalo, six of goat, and one each of sheep, pig, donkey and chicken. After including these newly registered breeds, total number of indigenous breeds now in the country is 184, which include 43 for cattle, 16 for buffalo, 34 for goat, 43 for sheep, 7 for horses & ponies, 9 for camel, 8 for pig, 2 for donkey, 1 for yak, 19 for chicken, 1 for duck and 1 for geese.

NEW BREEDS REGISTERED

S.N.	Breed	Home Tract	Accession number
Cattle
1	Ladakhi	Jammu and Kashmir	INDIA_CATTLE_0700_LADAKHI_03042
2	Konkan Kapila	Maharashtra and Goa	INDIA_CATTLE_1135_KONKANKAPILA_03043
Buffalo
3	Luit (Swamp)	Assam and Manipur	INDIA_BUFFALO_0212_LUIT_01014
4	Bargur	Tamil Nadu	INDIA_BUFFALO_1800_BARGUR_01015
5	Chhattisgarhi	Chhattisgarh	INDIA_BUFFALO_2600_CHHATTISGARHI_01016
Sheep
6	Panchali	Gujarat	INDIA_SHEEP_0400_PANCHALI_14043
Goat
7	Kahmi	Gujarat	INDIA_GOAT_0400_KAHMI_06029
8	Rohilkhandi	Uttar Pradesh	INDIA_GOAT_2000_ ROHILKHANDI _06030
9	Assam Hill	Assam and Meghalaya	INDIA_GOAT_0213_ ASSAMHILL _06031
10	Bidri	Karnataka	INDIA_GOAT_0800_ BIDRI _06032
11	Nandidurga	Karnataka	INDIA_GOAT_0800_ NANDIDURGA _06033
12	Bhakarwali	Jammu and Kashmir	INDIA_GOAT_0700_ BHAKARWALI _06034
Pig
13	Ghurrah	Uttar Pradesh	INDIA_PIG_2000_GHURRAH_09008
Donkey
14	Halari	Gujarat	INDIA_DONKEY_0400_HALARI_05002
Chicken
15	Uttara	Uttarakhand	INDIA_CHICKEN_2400_ UTTARA_12019