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Abstract

Live-stock improvement.Ever since the Viceroy gave an impetus to the improvement of animal husbandry in India by presenting three pedigree bulls for free service in the Delhi District,many local boards and big land owners have come forward with commendable promptitude to maintain breeding bulls in several parts of the country .The Advisory Board of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research have also arranged to constitute an animal husbandry bureau.to collect information regarding special characteristics of seven best breeds of cattle.and to open and maintain an official herd book for the registration of the performances of the pedigree cows.besides several press notes by the Director of Public Information.Simla, and addresses by the Live-Stock expert attached to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research are being broadcasted from time to time with a view to educate the public on the importance of the development of live-stock.All these activities have gone a great way in encouraging one important aspect of animal husbandry viz.breeding.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002189

Pages

349 - 351

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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