E- compendium of technologies in animal biotechnology and aquaculture

India has the largest animal husbandry sector in the world with largest livestock population to support the livelihoods of more than two-thirds of the rural population, mainly small and marginal farmers. Livestock can sustain the food demands of the rural households and also provides income sustainability at the time of crop failures. Therefore, sustainable animal production and health is important as healthy animals are closely related to healthy people and healthy environment. Similarly, Aquaculture is an important sector for food production providing nutritional security, besides livelihood support, gainful employment and its contribution towards agricultural exports. The department has been supporting research and development activities in area of animal health, nutrition and productivity through enhancing livestock production & productivity, animal reproduction, nutrition, improving animal health through developing newer vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics. The department is also supporting research and development activities on fish genomics & transcriptomics, developing newer diagnostics and therapeutics, marine ornamental marine bioprospecting, and improvement in aqua-feed along with low cost feed for cultivable marine and fresh water animal species. The compendium has the details of technologies developed through DBT supported R&D projects under 'Animal & Livestock Biotechnology' and 'Aquaculture & Fisheries Biotechnology' programmes. These technologies are under various stages of commercialization. Some of these technologies have been commercialized while, remaining technologies have been validated and are under process of commercialization.