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Lead Centre: ICAR-NRC on Equines, Hisar
Background and Rationale
Agriculture is the lifeline of our nation and agricultural research has always been the priority. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is also engaged in developing resistant varieties of crop plants to resist abiotic stresses, for which useful traits of microbes capable of growing naturally in such conditions can be exploited. The understanding of mechanisms of their survival in such conditions will lead to finding ways to use them favourably and effectively. The Veterinary Type Culture Collection is one such step from ICAR in this direction where microbes of animal origin may be utilized effectively for boosting overall livestock development through such research efforts which will ensure human and animal health, conserve ecosystem and biodiversity, and will help in realizing the goals of “One-Health” which will ensure a sustainably healthy ecosystem.

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Objectives
  1. Collection and preservation of identified and characterized microbes of animal origin.
  2. Development of a comprehensive microbial repository management system.

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