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HomeAgrotechICAR – NIANP commercialises anti – methanogenic feed supplement ‘Harit Dhara’ 

ICAR – NIANP commercialises anti – methanogenic feed supplement ‘Harit Dhara’ 

Supplement very effective in mitigating daily enteric methane emission from ruminants by 20 per cent

The ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bengaluru commercialised the anti-methanogenic feed supplement ‘Harit Dhara’ to BAIF Development Research Foundation, Pune on a non-exclusive basis through AgrInnovate India. 

Dr Raghavendra Bhatta, Inventor and Director, ICAR-NIANP, Bengaluru and Bharat Kakade, President, BAIF Development Research Foundation, signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) on behalf of their respective organisations for the licensing and commercial manufacturing of the anti-methanogenic feed supplement.

The product has been developed through systematic and comprehensive research for more than a decade and the supplement is very effective in mitigating the daily enteric methane emission from ruminants by about 20 percent. 

BAIF is planning to adopt the Harit Dhara technology across 10 states of India for the effective mitigation of daily enteric methane emissions thereby improving livestock productivity.

The ‘Harit Dhara’ is a patent-applied technology. 

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