Bulls for India

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 2

Bulls for India

i Forty-two bulls supplied vby the New Zealand Dairy; s Board left New Zealand foi j. India on Saturday by an. tl The bulls —26 Jersey and, ];!16 Friesian — are a gift from ’ the New Zealand Govern- : ment in an extension of its i' long-standing aid programme i 11 to the dairy industry in In-1 : dia. They will help to im- ; prove the genetic quality and similk production in Indian dairy herds. c An associated aid project s involves 42,000 doses of deept; frozen Jersey and Friesian |lsemen being sent to India glover the next five years. The, first consignment is due toj (i leave New Zealand about sjApril or May. rj The bulls and semen will s cost the New Zealand Gov-' ''eminent about 5116.000 this t- year. ■ ' It seems that New Zea-. , land’s part in the project will; t also involve the supply of I “technical experts, deep-frozen' ?semen, and ancillary equip- ! ment, live breeding stock, the, f training of Indian extension! 'staff, and an exchange of Ini dian and New Zealand spe- “ cialists in artificial insemination and animal husbandry, i x Dr A. Rhodes, superintenp dent of the Dairy Board's 11 Newstead artificial-breeding v centre, will travel with the '• shipment of bulls to India to: i, evaluate and advise on the' d setting up of the unit.

■si Polo.—Poverty Bay beat Hawke’s Bay. 8-5. in the final 1., of the Poverty Bay polo tournae ment. I Softball.—Hutt Valley beat Wellington 4-1. in a representative s 'match at Memorial Park, Welling, ton.