The Board has four livestock farms located at Mattupatti, Kulathupuzha, Dhoni and Puthur. All the farms except Puthoor maintains breeding bulls for frozen semen production. While the Mattupatti farm houses both the Sunandini and exotic bulls, Dhoni and Kulathupuzha farms have only the Sunandini bulls. Dhoni also maintains the Murrah buffalo bulls. Bull mothers are kept at Mattupatti and Dhoni. Dhoni farm, in addition to the above also accommodates a quality control laboratory for frozen semen, central fodder seed store, seed testing laboratory, basic fodder seed production unit and the goat breeding centre. The farm at Puthur maintains pigs. The training centres are located at Mattupatti, Dhoni and Puthur. |