Ministry/Department : Ministry of Science and Technology
Scheme:
- The scheme aims at boosting selective breeding of the native livestock more accurately to ensure high-yielding, disease-resistant, resilient livestock.
- Under it, government will undertake an ambitious project of genome sequencing of 40 registered indigenous cattle breeds of India.
- Besides, a high-density DNA chips will be developed under this scheme to reduce the cost and time interval of breeding of the native livestock.
- Genome selection will use information on variations in DNA sequences between animals to predict the breeding value more accurately. Thus, help to transform livestock breeding.