BAIF TIMELINE

1960s

1967 – Inauguration of BAIF

1970s

1970 – Pioneered doorstep AI services

  1973 – BAIF Central Research Station established 

1979 – BAIF Vaccine Laboratory inaugurated

1980s

1982 – Wadi Programme launched

1990s

1992 – BAIF Silver Jubilee

1993 – Dr. Manibhai Desai passes away

2000s

2009 – Frozen semen laboratory established at Jind, Haryana

2010s

2013  –  MoU for Scientific Collaboration signed by Dr. S. Ayyappan, Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) and Director General, Indian Council of  Agricultural Research and Shri. Girish Sohani along with Shri. Ramesh Rawal in New Delhi on February 14, 2013.

2017 – BAIF Golden Jubilee

2018 – World-class Sexed – Sorted Semen Lab inaugurated at Uruli Kanchan, Pune.

Ova Pick Up and In-vitro Fertilisation Embryo Transfer Lab Inaugurated at Uruli Kanchan, Pune.

2020s

2020 COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Recovery Programme launched in BAIF’s operational areas.

2021 – COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Recovery Programme ensures basket of relief measures to distressed families in BAIF’s operational areas.

2022 – Launch of BAIF Kisan Mart for promoting rural entrepreneurship

2022 – Launch of Cow Milk ATM for promoting rural entrepreneurship

Two dual-purpose grain and fodder varieties – BAIF Bajra-5 and BAIF Bajra-6, were notified and released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India on July 13, 2022

The ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP) commercialised the anti-methanogenic feed supplement – ‘Harit Dhara’ to BAIF through AgrInnovate india on a non-exclusive basis, on September 29, 2022 in Bengaluru

Participation of BAIF NRM and Soil experts at COP27 in Egypt from November 11-16, 2022

Fodder Pearl millet – BAIF Bajra-7, was notified and released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India onNovember 30, 2022 for cultivation in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

2023 – Programme Outreach to 14 States