Lok Sabha Question No. 244 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-11-30
Subject: Artificial Insemination of Dairy Animals and Bovines
Ministry: FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
Asked by: Sanganna Amarappa Karadi, Prathap Simha, Umesh G. Jadhav, L.S. Tejasvi Surya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING LOKSABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 244 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30 TH  NOVEMBER 2021

## ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION OF DAIRY ANIMALS AND BOVINES

## 244. SHRI SANGANNA AMARAPPA:

SHRI PRATHAP SIMHA:

DR. UMESH G. JADHAV:

SHRI L.S. TEJASVI SURYA:

## Will the Minister of FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING मत्स्यपाऱन , पशुपाऱन और डेयरी मंत्री

be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  the  Government  has  taken  steps  to  regulate  and  check  the  artificial  insemination  of dairy animals and bovines, and if so, the details thereof;

(b)  the  details  of  the  dairy  production  farms  registered  with  the  Government  from  the  State  of Karnataka; and

(c)  whether  the  Government  has  noticed  desperate  efforts  by  foreign  dairy  conglomerates  to denigrate the Indian dairy industry?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING (SHRI  PARSHOTTAM RUPALA )

(a) Yes Sir. In order to compliment and supplement the efforts by the States and Union Territories to regulate and check artificial insemination of dairy animals  and bovines Government of India has undertaken  following  steps  for  regulating  artificial  insemination  in  the  country:  i)  in  order  to improve quality  of  semen  production  Minimum Standards Protocol  (MSP) for  semen production has been formulated and made available to all semen stations in the country; ii) Central Monitoring Unit (CMU) for evaluation of semen stations under the control all the agencies including private agencies have been constituted; iii) Central Monitoring Unit undertake evaluation and grading  of all the semen stations on the basis of implementation of MSP; iv)  States have been requested to use semen doses produced only from semen stations graded as A and  B by Central Monitoring Unit under  breeding  programme;  v)  Minimum  Standard  Protocol  (MSP)  and  Standard  Operating Procedures (SOP) for Artificial Insemination Training  Institutes has been formulated; vi) Central Monitoring Unit has been constituted for evaluation and grading of all the Artificial Insemination Training  Institutes  under  the  control  of  all  the  agencies  in  the  country;  vii)  States  have  been requested  to  undertake  training  of  Artificial  Insemination  Technicians  only  at  training  centres graded  by  Central  Monitoring  Unit  and  viii)  directions  has  been  issued  to  the  States  under  the Section 39 of The Prevention and Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases in Animals Act 2009  for  implementation  of  Minimum  Standard  Protocol  at  Semen  Stations  for  prevention  and control of infectious and contagious diseases spread through semen.

(b)  As  per  information  received  from  the  Animal  Husbandry  Department,  Government  of Karnataka,  Dairy  production  farms  are  not  being  registered  by  the  Department  of  Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services, Karnataka

(c)  The  Department  of  Animal  Husbandry  and  Dairying  has  no  information  regarding  desperate efforts made by foreign dairy conglomerates to denigrate the Indian dairy industry.