Objectives
Kerala Livestock Development Board
- To provide the inputs required for cattle breeding in line with the breeding policy of the State
- To promote fodder production under field condition to support economic milk production
- To offer training courses in animal husbandry and fodder production.
- To develop Malabari goats through the production and supply of selected breeding stock.
- To produce and supply good quality piglets for breeding and fattening.
Responsibilities
The activities of the Board are carried out by the two technical wings viz :Animal Husbandry and Fodder Development.
Animal Husbandry wing
Major Responsibilities
- Management of around 800 heads of cattle in 5 cattle breeding farms.
- Production of 80 crossbred young bulls annually through a systematically laid out nominated mating of the elite cows with proven bulls.
- Procurement of about 80 superior male calves, born to elite cows mated with proven bulls from the farmer’s herd in the milk recorded area.
- Selection and management of about 160 breeding bulls.
- Management of about 20 pedigreed Murrah buffalo bulls for semen production.
- Production of about 3.0 million doses of frozen semen annually.
- Quality control of frozen semen.
- Applied research on cattle breeding and frozen semen technology.
- Implementation of the breeding policy of the state by way of supplying frozen semen of suitable genetic makeup under a definite scientifically formulated bull rotation programme.
- Supply of about 1.5 million doses of frozen semen (cattle and buffalo) to over 2900 AI centers spread across the state through the 7 Regional Semen Banks.
- Sale of around 1 million doses of frozen semen outside the State.
- Procurement and supply of 0.75 million litres of liquid nitrogen (LN) annually to over 2900 AI centers for storage and preservation of semen.
- Study on the production and reproduction parameters of about 3000 Sunandini cows in the field every year through an established Field Performance Recording system.
- Evaluation and selection of young Sunandini bulls through the Progeny Testing Scheme.
- To produce High Genetic Merit disease free CBHF bull calves for the frozen semen production stations all over India under National Dairy Plan
- Selective breeding of Vechur cattle
- Conservation of Indigenous livestock, goats & pigs
- Genomic selection of breeding bulls
- Training in various fields of livestock production.
- Liaison with the Department of Animal Husbandry for the successful implementation of the breeding programme of the state.
- Application of the Embryo Transfer technique and IVF in the bull production programme.
- Management of a herd of about 200 Malabari and 50 Boer goats & supplying high quality breeding stock to the farmers
- Building up of breeding stock required for the production of about 1500 piglets to be supplied to the farmers.
Fodder Development Wing
Major Responsibilities
- Fodder production in the Board farms as per requirements
- Conduct of trials for the selection of suitable varieties of grasses, legumes and fodder trees.
- Management trials with selected fodder varieties.
- Production of foundation seeds from the selected fodder varieties in the Board farms and seed multiplication in the field through registered seed growers
- Procurement, testing, quality control, processing, storage of fodder seeds and formulation of seed mixtures for different requirements.
- Marketing of seeds and fodder slips through various developmental agencies.
- Promotion of fodder and fodder seeds, demonstration of the package of practices, follow up and feed back.
- Liaison with other agencies of the State in the field of fodder development.
- Training in various fields of fodder production.
- Implementation of farmer oriented schemes