Union Minister for Animal Husbandry Giriraj Singh has said that the government is planning to introduce “sex-sorted semen” technology to ensure more female calves are born, in order to increase farmers’ income.
“In the coming days, using insemination, the calves that will be born would only be female ones through (doses of) sex sorted semen,” the minister said at an event organised by Mother Dairy in Nagpur.
In March, Uttarakhand became the country’s first state to produce sex-sorted semen for cows, which can enhance the possibility of birth of female calves to ninety per cent.