High yielding cattle is a good solution for food enhancement. How does the MOET technology help to increase the herd size?

MOET technology means Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology.

MOET is a programme for herd improvement in animals like cattle, sheep, rabbits, buffaloes, mares, etc., for the desired quality and variety of the cattle.

In MOET first the high yielding female cow is administered with hormones with FSH activity. This is done to induce follicular maturation and super ovulation as they yield just one egg per cycle. Now they produce 6-8 eggs.

Now the animal is either mated with an elite bull or artificially inseminated. When the fertilized eggs attain 8-32 cells stage, they are non-surgically removed and transferred to a surrogate mother. The genetic mother is now still available for another round of super ovulation.

The MOET technology has been successfully used to get high meat yielding bulls (i.e., lean meat with less lipids), high milk yielding females and also to increase the herd size in short time. The MOET technology is experimented on cattle, sheep, rabbits, buffaloes, mares, etc.