Country’s first calf born to surrogate cow in
mobile lab
The oocytes were kept in a special incubator, which worked as an artificial uterus, for nearly 24 hours. Meanwhile, semen was collected from a Gir bull. The process of fertilisation then began — in a petridish inside the incubator, at a temperature of 38.5 degree centigrade.
EARLY ON Sunday morning, at 2:40 am, the
Pathan family in Indapur, about 140 kilometres from Pune, celebrated the birth
of a new family member — Vijay, the country’s first calf delivered by a
surrogate or recipient cow through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) technology
carried out in a mobile laboratory.
This is the first time that the procedure was
successfully implemented at a farm, with the help of a mobile laboratory. The
aim is to take the technology to the farmer. They carry out the entire
procedure in front of the farmer, with mobile IVF lab.
In Vijay’s case, the donor cow,
Ratan, belongs to the Gir breed, whose population across the country is around
one lakh currently — unevenly spread across Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
On an average, it gives 10-12 litres of milk daily.
Under
the JK Trust’s initiative, JK BovaGenix, aimed at promoting genetically
superior indigenous cattle breeds, the oocytes, or immature eggs, of the donor
cow were collected from Rachana Cow
Farm, owned by the Pathan family, on November 9, 2016.
The doctors who carried out the
project under Zavar include Dr Vinod Patil, Dr Pradeep Tiwari, Dr Ramakant
Kaushik and Dr Amol Sahare.
At
present, JK Trust has two state-of-the-art Embryo Transfer and IVF
laboratories, known as Dr Vijaypat Singhania Centre of Excellence Assisted
Reproductive Technologies in Livestock at Gopalnagar, near Bilaspur, in
Chhattisgarh and Vadgaon-Rasai near Pune.
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