Cattle Development

Out of native livestock resource in Ladakh area, Ladakhi cattle play an important role due to survival and adaptability at cold as well as hypobaric hypoxic conditions. Ladakhi Cattle constitutes 56% of total cattle population in Ladakh. The local cattle is a unique germplasm having excellent adaptation potential and a natural source of A2 milk. DIHAR in collaboration with ICAR-NBAGR, Karnal has conducted studies on Ladakhi cattle and is in the process of registering it as 42nd  breed of India. Further, institute is working on the breeding and productive traits of Ladakhi Cattle for selective breeding and thereby producing pool of high producing Ladakhi cattle which in turn will increase milk production of Ladakh. Milk produced by local farmers will be purchased by Army through Cooperatives, thus there will be availability of fresh milk supply to the troops deployed in L-Sector.