Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes

Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar, a public funded, world's largest premier institute for the buffalo research, is located 170 km from Delhi, at Hisar in the north Indian state of Haryana. It has a sub-campus as Bir Dosanjh at Babha. CIRB operates a nation-wide network of 10 research centres to undertake breed improvement of 7 main native breed. CIRB, with over 20 laboratories for the buffalo research on more than 7 native and several other breeds, is world's largest research institute with the widest range of breeds under research. To improve the breed and disseminate the information, CIRB has sold over 1,000 superior bulls, conducted ~200,000 artificial insemination in the field for the farmers’ buffaloes with 41% conception rate, distributed ~520,000 progeny tested frozen semen kits to 45,000 farmers and over 250 institutes, imparted training to several thousand farmers on advanced buffalo husbandry, created world's first and most comprehensive online Buffalopedia in several languages. It has a large research partner network across India and globe. It is world's seconds institute to successfully clone the buffalo in 2016, after the first successful cloning was achieved by the National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal in 2010. In July 2017, Indian Council of Agricultural Research ranked CIRB Hisar as India's number one Buffalo research institute for the year 2016-17.India has world's 58% buffaloes and 35% of India's cattle are buffaloes. Buffalo milk is 70% of the total milk yield in India, with its national GDP share being larger than wheat and rice combined. Buffalo meat makes up 86% of India's total meat export, earning INR 26,000 crore (US$4 billion) in 2013-14. CIRB makes high quality semen available for the buffalo breeding at a very low cost to India's farmers. Semen and buffaloes, specially Murrah buffalo, are also exported to other nations world wide for the improvement of the breed.