Final report : international collaborative research project on incidence and field management of infertility in cattle and buffaloes in rural Haryana, India

It covered four villages, two in the dry zone and two in the wet. In the wet zone, the incidence of anestrus was highest, followed by repeat breeding, silent heat, cervicitis, and abortions. Similar problems existed in the dry areas. It was found that productivity and reproductive efficiency in cattle and buffalo were hampered by delayed sexual maturity, anestrus conditions, faulty husbandry, malnutrition, and lack of organized cattle breeding operations. Although artificial insemination facilities existed in all four villages surveyed, conception rates were low, due to the poor quality of semen used, inexperienced inseminators, and wrongly timed insemination. (Author abstract, from PN-ABK-546)