This bull helped owner earn Rs 12L in 8 months

This bull helped owner earn Rs 12L in 8 months

CHANDIGARH: This is no cock-and-bull story. A murrah bull, Yuvraj, is a virtual money-spinner for its owner Karambir Singh, 44, of Sunariya village in Kurukshetra. Singh claims he has earned more than Rs 12 lakh in eight months by selling the semen of Yuvraj.

Yuvraj was declared champion in the animal fair, which concluded at National Dairy and Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, on Monday. The bull won prizes worth Rs 24,000 in the fair. In another fair held at Hisar, the bull won prize worth Rs 16,000.

But the real source of income is its semen. "I kept my bull continuously for two months at a semen production centre in Karnal after it became an adult in June 2011. It produced 5,000 semen doses. I sold each dose for up to Rs 300," said the proud farmer.

Dr V S Raina, former principal scientist of NDRI, said farmers even from southern states come to Haryana to buy the semen of murrah buffaloes. NDRI director A K Srivastava said that by using semen of a bull, 50,000 calves can be produced annually.

Experts said it's the genetic background of a bull that helps in evaluating cost of its semen. Yuvraj's mother, Saraswati, had won first prize by producing 26.4 kg milk in a day in 2009-2010