Dr. Ramesh Chander Sharma born at VPO, Nahar, Distt. Rewari (Haryana) in
1962 and did his M.Sc. Animal Breeding from HAU, Hisar in1986. He joined
IVRI, Izatnagar (UP) during the same year as R.A. and subsequently appointed
as Technical officer at the same Institute in 1987. He was engaged in assisting
the Project Leader to establish and run the ETT lab under DBT Project. Assisted
in preparations of animals for embryo collection and transfer alongwith
other lab activities. He maintained the lab for its smooth functioning besides
helping in conducting training programs on ETT. As an in- service candidate
he did his Ph.D, Animal Breeding –“Selection indices………
in buffaloes” from CCS, HAU, Hisar in 1995.
He joined as Scientist, Animal Genetics and Breeding at CSWRI, Avikanagar
in 1995 and handled following research projects in addition to other Scientific/
Official responsibility.
1. Improving Malpura sheep for mutton production (As PI from Feb. 2001
and Co- PI from April 97 to Jan 2001)
2. AP cess fund project on Multiplication and adaptability of prolific Garole
sheep in semi arid region (As Co-PI since inception April 2001 till March
2003).
3. Improvement and testing of Avikalin sheep (As Co-PI from Sept 97 to Sept
2000)
4. NATP project on Technology assessment and refinement through Institute
village linkage program. (As Co-PI from Oct 96 to Aug 2000).
5. Transfer of technologies for improvement in sheep and rabbit production.
(As Co-PI from Dec 95 to March 99)
First time introduced the prolific Garole sheep of West Bengal in the breeding
project during 1997 and study on Garole was initiated in a planned manner.
Very limited work on this germ plasm has been undertaken in the country.
Strengthened the flock of Garole sheep and procured 61 more Garole sheep
from its native tract for performance evaluation with larger number of records.
It has been observed that the reproductive ability of males and females
of this breed was not adversely affected due to change of place. Crossbreeding
of Garole rams with monotocus Malpura ewes for enhancing reproductive efficiency
of the latter was successfully attempted. The halfbred Garole x Malpura
ewes produced 45% twin lambing compared to 1-2% in Malpura sheep. Basic
germ plasm having the genetic potential of increased reproductive efficiency
has been created and will be of useful research material for further research
towards evolving a new strain of sheep having multiple birth capability
with optimum body weight. Improved breeding rams of Malpura sheep were being
produced and distributed to interested sheep farmers and other development
agencies. Evaluated the performance of Avikalin strain and found that it
has genetic potential to be developed as dual-purpose sheep for carpet wool
and mutton production. Mortality in Avikalin and Malpura lambs has been
2 to 4% over the years. Base line information on production parameters was
generated from field flocks. Simple means were suggested to the farmers
for avoiding inbreeding in their flocks. Farmers were persuaded for adopting
scientific management/ breeding practices in sheep rearing. Date recording
system for performance traits of sheep was strengthened and field records
were evaluated time to time.
On March 22, 2003, joined NRCE, Hisar as Senior Scientist in the discipline
of Animal Genetics & Breeding.
- RFLP-
Based genotyping of major histocompatibility complex class II genes in
Marwari horses
- Superior
mule production in the field through frozen semen of exotic Jacks
-
Performance
evaluation of Marwari horses under different type of shelters
