Artificial insemination laboratory launched in Godagari

RAJSHAHI, Feb 9 (BSS): After the Savar in Dhaka, the second largest artificial insemination laboratory of the country has been launched at Rajabarihat under Godagari upazila of the district aiming at improving cattle varieties and to fulfill the region's increasing demands for protein.
Constructed at a cost of around Taka 44.3 million the laboratory from now on will produce liquid nitrogen and it is very essential to preserve frozen semen and thereby the artificial insemination activities would be expedited throughout the country's northwest region.
The initiative has been taken to preserve high quality semen from cattle after importing the specimens from abroad.
According to the officials concerned, the laboratory was constructed under a five-year project titled "Artificial Insemination Activities Extension and Embryo Transfer Technology Implementation" being executed by the Department of Animal Resources.
In addition to a two-storied office building, construction of four calf and bull sheds and one isolation shed was completed on a partial land of 50-acre Divisional Fodder Farming center.
ATM Fazlul Kader Mallik, Assistant Director (Animal Production) of Department of Animal Resources, told BSS that the newly established laboratory has scope of keeping at least 80 bulls on an average for production of quality semen.
The project has also provision to produce high-yielding and nutritive fodder for the bulls on farming field beside the laboratory.
He said artificial insemination has a vital role to play in expansion of the cattle breeding and the program could be expanded successfully if all the villages are brought under the coverage.