Even as cricket-lovers were looking forward to see one of their favourite players, Yuvraj Singh, in action at the T20 World Cup, it was a four-legged Yuvraj who stole the show here at the `Krishi Unnati Mela' (agriculture development fair), inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi at the IARI Pusa campus on 2016-03-19.
Thousands of farmers from across the country thronged the enclosure of Yuvraj -a much-sought-after Murrahbreed donor bull -and his owner Karamvir Singh to convince him to part with some of the animal's semen to help artificially inseminate their milch buffaloes.
They all were, however, told to visit Karamvir's farm in Sunarion village in Kurukshetra, Haryana, where the owner has state-of-the-art facilities to collect semen and store it safely. A single ejaculation of Yuvraj's, trig tion of Yuvraj's, triggered with the help of a teaser animal or by electro-stimulation method, generates between 4-6 ml of semen. It is then diluted and 500 to 600 doses are prepared with it. Karamvir sells a single dose, preserved inside plastic straws and stored in liquid nitrogen containers, for Rs 300. Asked about how much his bull earns for him, Karamvir told TOI that he roughly earned Rs 40-45 lakh per annum but hastened to add that he spent a lot of the cash to keep his prized possession in good health. “I spend roughly Rs 3,000 per day on eight-year-old Yuvraj's food. The money which I earn from Yuvraj helps me to keep my other buffaloes in better condition. I could have charged more for a single dose, but I deliberately keep it low as I want to carry on with this business as a social service,“ said Karamvir.
What had prompted him to name the bull after the cricketer Yuvraj Singh? He said, “Uske sitare cricketer ke beech buland the (he was among the shining star among cricketers).“
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