Effective measures needed to increase equine population: Vice Chancellor.

FAISALABAD -- Agriculture University Dera Ismail Khan, Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Masroor Elahi Baber said on Tuesday that there was an acute shortage of breeding stallion in the country and effective measures should be adopted to enhance the population of equine.

He was addressing an international seminar on Equine Husbandry Breeding GMPs organized by the Institute of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF). He said that estimated global equine population was 116 million including 57 million horses and 50.5 million

donkeys and 7.9 million mules. He said that in Pakistan the population of equines was 6.7 million

including 0.4 million horses, 5.7 million donkeys and 0.2 million mules.

Dr Masroor Elahi said the horse across the world was considered as a symbol of strength and power. Horses and mounted warriors had been partners for thousands of years, he said and added that

there was a lack of trained manpower and no availability of stallion semen in countries like Pakistan;

higher prices of imported stallion semen and need for artificial...