All the necessary requirements for the successful conduct of the courses are available in the two stations of Training centre. Boarding and lodging facilities are given in the premises itself. Well established technical library, reading hall, class rooms and practical halls facilitate proper training.

             A separate laboratory with all necessary equipment and instruments is built specially for trainees on ‘Frozen Semen Technology’. A well established lab with all facilities are available for training on “Embryo transfer technique”. Enough culled female animals are kept in the farm for the trainees to handle them for the courses on ‘Fertility problems in Female Bovines’ and ‘A.I. with Frozen Semen’ etc. A well equipped fodder seed laboratory with capacity of processing and storing 50 M.T. seeds is available at Dhoni which is very useful for training in fodder production and fodder seed processing. Modern teaching aids and demonstration units are amply used in order to improve the training quality.

Within the premises of the Training Centre Mattupatti and Dhoni there are :-

  Mattupatti Dhoni
Breedable female cattle (Nos.) 100 75
Crossbred bulls (Nos.) 100 100
Semen lab (annual production 10-15 lakh) 1 1
E-T-lab 1 -
Calf rearing station (Nos) 1 1
Slaughter house (Nos) 1 1
Grassland (Ha) 160 8
Leys (Ha) 30 50
Basic fodder seed farm (Ha) - 10
Quality control unit - 1


In addition to the above, the following facilities of the KLD Board are available for demonstration and practical work.

Farm with similar facilities as Mattupatti at Kulathupuzha.
Field progeny testing scheme.
Large scale frozen semen distribution system.
Fodder promotion activities.
Fodder seed production programme.
Fodder seed testing and quality control station
Central seed store having two ton capacity
Data processing station.
Goat breeding centre
Pig breeding centre
Quality control unit