1. Veterinary Education, Embryo Transfer
and Artificial Insemination of
Ruminant: Perspective Bangladesh
Dibyendu Biswas, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics
Patuakhali Science and Technology University
Bangladesh
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2. About Bangladesh
Area: 147,610 square kilometres
Population: 170 million
Major: Agricultural activities
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3. About Bangladesh
• Climate is tropical
• Bangladesh is notable for its soil fertility land
and 80% people are involved in agricultural
related work- crop farm, animal farm, fish
farm
• Most of the family have at least one cow and a
crop field
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4. Annual av. Rainfall, humidity and temperature
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5. Education system
• Medical Science- Human medical
• Engineering – Computer, Electrical, civil…….
• Agricultural Science- Vet, Agril, Fish, Ani Sci …
• Basic Science- Social Science……..
• General subject- Literature, IR, History…….
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6. ………I am veterinarian
!!!
“Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one's soul remains
unawakened”— Anatole
France
“The greatness
of a nation and
its moral
progress can
be judged by
the way its
animals are
treated" ―
Mahatma
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7. Evolution of veterinary education in
Bangladesh
• The Veterinary education has undergone 3 major
changes in Bangladesh after the cessation of the British
colonial period:
– A period of Diploma course inherited from the British
colonial period transformed into Bachelor’s degree
course (1947)
– Second change emerged with the establishment of the
Bangladesh (Pakistan) Agricultural University
(1961>>1971)
– At the beginning of 1990’s Third change has evolved in
veterinary education with the establishment of new
veterinary colleges to overcome past weakness and to
address the emerging issues
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8. Evolution of veterinary education in
Bangladesh
• Three major elements of Third changes:
– Broad based curriculum incorporating basic
animal science (20-25%), basic and social
sciences (5-7%) to the mainstream veterinary
courses(68-75%) in the undergraduate
curriculum.
– A new key focus placed on learning at off-campus
(work based learning-Internship) in veterinary
curriculum
– Graduates capable to provide an integrated one
window service to the community.
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9. Faculty of Vet
Sci, BAU
Faculty of Vet, Ani &
Biomedi Sci, SAU
Faculty of Vet
Med, CVASUFaculty of
Ani Sci & Vet
Med, PSTU
Faculty of Vet
& Animal Sci,
HSTU
Dept of Vet &
Ani Sci, RU
Jhenaidah
Govt Vet
College, JSTU
Vet Med & Ani
Sci, BSMRAU
Ani Sci & Vet
Med, SAU,
Dhaka
Veterinary Institute in Bangladesh
10. Credit and course duration and instruction
Status Semester Credit Duration Stud
ents
instru
ction
Fresh man (L-1) Jan-June 15-19 6 months
About800becomegraduate
English
Jul-Dec 15-22 6 months
Sophomore (L-2) Jan-June 20-21 6 months
Jul-Dec 21-22 6 months
Junior (L-3) Jan-June 21-22 6 months
Jul-Dec 21-22 6 months
Senior (L-4) Jan-June 22-24 6 months
Jul-Dec 20-22 6 months
Most Senior (L-5) Jan-June 11-17 6 months
Intern (off-campus) Jul-Dec 11-12 6 months
Total 182-199 5 years
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11. Regulatory unit
• Consists of 14 govt. high officials
• Certificate for vet. practicing
• Monitoring the syllabus, course curriculum of
veterinary institute
• Monitoring practitioners activity
• Inspecting the various veterinary institutions to
monitoring the rules and regulations of the
council are being followed all over the country
Bangladesh Veterinary Council
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12. Demands of Veterinarian
Student choice 3rd position and foreign students
like Nepal, India, Sudan, Nigeria
Government Needs more veterinarians for
public service including
improvement of animal industries
Job market Veterinary pharmaceuticals and
other govt. officer
Private practice Increasing
Self service Dairy and poultry farm
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13. Artificial Insemination
There is proverbs “Milk and
Rice are the main food of
Bangladeshi people”
But now a days poor in productivity
in terms of milk, meat and calf
In 1960, AI was started for dairy
cattle improvement.
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14. Growth of livestock population in Bangladesh
(million)
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
Million
Cattle Buffalo Sheep Goat
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15. Contribution of Livestock and Poultry in the
National Economy of Bangladesh (2015-16)
Contribution of Livestock in Gross
Domestic Product (GDP)
1.66%
GDP growth rate of Livestock 3.21%
GDP volume in Billion (Taka) 3291
Share of Livestock in Agricultural GDP 14.21%
Employment (Directly) 20.00%
Employment (Partly) 50.00%
Cultivation of land by livestock 50.00%
Fuel supply from livestock and poultry 25.00%
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16. Common type of cattle in Bangladesh
Throughout the country
Red Chittagong cattle in Bangladesh
Non-descript Deshi
2-3 kg/day milk
Red Chittagong
3-4 kg/day milk
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17. Common type of cattle in Bangladesh
Pabna cattle in Bangladesh
Crossbred cattle in Bangladesh
Pabna cattle
4-5kg/day milk
Crossbred cattle
10-15kg/day milk
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18. Common type of goat in Bangladesh
Black Bengal goat,
highly prolific and
best meat and skin
quality in world
Jamuna pari breed
19. Animal ownership category
Type of household Number in
(million) of
% of
Cattle Buffalo Cattle Buffalo
Landless (<0.05 acre) 2.21 0.08 9.45 9.81
Small (0.05-2.49 acre) 12.63 0.24 53.97 19.37
Medium (2.5-7.5 acre) 6.88 0.29 29.40 34.94
Large (>7.5 acre) 1.68 0.21 7.18 25.88
1 acre=0.405 hectare Source: DLS, Bangladesh
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20. Reproductive performance of Bangladeshi
Cattle
Parameter Red Chittagong Exotic
crossbred
Age at 1st service (days) 1216±121 876±192
Service per conception 1.2 1.6
Calving interval (day) 430 420
Post partum service
(day)
110±4.2 139±47
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21. Yearly semen production and AI coverage
Agency Frozen
semen (Mill)
Liquid
semen(Mill)
District Upazilla AI sub
center
DLS 2.16 1.3 64 504 2070
BRAC 2.0 - 62 ~400 -
American
Dairy
0.60 - - - -
Ejab Alance 0.12 - - - -
MilkVita 0.13 - -
Lalteer, ACI,
PRAN, EON,
RDA
Very few - - - -
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Non-Government
organization
22. 1st AI buffalo calf born
20-25 % <1 %
NS
Animal coverage
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23. Conception rate of different genotype
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Local LXHF (F1) LXHF (F2) LXS LXSL LXSXHF LXSLXHF RCC
Conceptionrate(%)
Different genotypes of cows
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24. Lacking of diagnosing tools for early
conception failure
Public not interested due to lower conception
rate
High environment temperature
Most of the cow reared by landless people
• One house-one farm
Quality control and lack of trained manpower
Lot of non-descriptive breed
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25. Govt. initiation to overcome this….
• Launch a project on
extension of AI
programme and
Embryo transfer
technology (2017)…..
– Set up a AI point in a
remote area
– Training of field AI
technician
– Set up a new bull
stations and ET
laboratory
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26. Research on IVF and ET
Reproduction laboratory at
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27. Research on ET and IVF
Birth of two kid from cryo-preserved embryos , 2017
Bangladesh Agricultural University
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28. Research on ET and IVF
Birth of two calf from in-vitro fertilized oocyte (2016)
Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Dhaka
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29. Remarks
• Have a lot of opportunities to do research on
our native cow (Red Chittagong cattle)
• Contributory and collaboratory research
funding agency essential
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