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