{"id":7034,"date":"2025-09-25T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:53:12","slug":"prime-minister-shri-narendra-modi-inaugurates-%e2%82%b910-crore-sex-sorted-semen-facility-at-purnea-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=7034","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Inaugurates \u20b910-Crore Sex Sorted Semen Facility at Purnea, Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center event-heading-background\">\n<h2 id=\"Titleh2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Inaugurates \u20b910-Crore Sex Sorted Semen Facility at Purnea, Bihar<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"Subtitleh3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><span id=\"ltrSubtitle\"><br \/>\nIndigenous \u2018Gausort\u2019 Technology to Boost\u00a0 Dairy Sector in Eastern &amp; North-Eastern India<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PrDateTime\" class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 15 SEP 2025 9:30PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Prime Minister\u00a0 Shri Narendra Modi, today\u00a0 inaugurated the\u00a0 Sex Sorted Semen facility established under the \u201cRashtriya Gokul Mission\u201d scheme being implemented by Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying under the Ministry\u00a0 of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying at Semen Station, Purnea, Bihar. This facility has been created with the Central assistance of Rs.10 crore and has capacity to produce 5 lakh doses per year.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image00116AC.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>In line with the vision of &#8216;Make in India&#8217; and &#8216;Atmanirbhar Bharat&#8217; the indigenously developed technology \u2018Gausort\u2019 launched by the Prime Minister earlier on\u00a0 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October 2024 will be used in sex sorting. Through Gausort technology, Sex Sorted Semen will be available to the farmers of the Eastern and North Eastern region at reasonable rates.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Purnea semen station was established under Rashtriya Gokul Mission with Central assistance of Rs. 84.27 crores. This is one of the largest semen stations in the government sector in the country and\u00a0 first of its kind semen station for the\u00a0 Eastern and North-Eastern States. The semen station is producing 50 lakh doses per annum and playing an important role in development of the dairy sector in the region.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Semen Sex-Sorting is a technology that increases the likelihood of birth of female calves with about 90% accuracy, thereby significantly reducing the economic burden on dairy farmers. Use of this technology offers the potential to produce more replacement heifers\u2019 thereby increasing farmers\u2019 income. The establishment of semen sex sorting facility at Purnea, Bihar will directly benefit all the farmers engaged in dairying in the region mainly small and marginal farmers and landless labours.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Inaugurates \u20b910-Crore Sex Sorted Semen Facility at Purnea, Bihar Indigenous \u2018Gausort\u2019 Technology to Boost\u00a0 Dairy Sector in Eastern &amp; North-Eastern India Posted On: 15 SEP 2025 9:30PM by PIB Delhi Prime Minister\u00a0 Shri Narendra Modi, today\u00a0 inaugurated the\u00a0 Sex Sorted Semen facility established under the \u201cRashtriya Gokul Mission\u201d scheme being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7036,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions\/7036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}