A Centre of Excellence for Animal Husbandry - Animal Husbandry Academy of India (CEAH) has been set up at Hessarghatta, Bengaluru. The facility has been established by the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (MoFAHD), Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, as a consortium of five organisations.

CEAH-Bengaluru is spread over 642 acres, and will house the Central Poultry Development Organisation and Training Institute (CPDOTI), Central Frozen Semen Production and Training Institute (CFSPTI) and Central Cattle Breeding Farm (CCBF), Animal Quarantine and Certification Services (AQCS), and Regional Fodder Station.

CEAH will facilitate capacity building in expertise-led domains for training animal husbandry officers and entrepreneurs across the country and globally. It plans to set up farmer demonstration units with successful business models to enable field adoption. The focus will be on new technologies, upgrading soft skills, along with the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine-learning (ML) in the techno-commercial areas.

Aspiring to be a single facility in the animal husbandry sector, it has poultry automation units, modern dairy sheds, a sex-sorted sperm lab, an international animal quarantine facility, and the country’s largest fodder seed production unit, with the latest irrigation technology.

The Indian animal husbandry sector is valued at Rs 15 lakh crore, with dairy accounting for Rs 7-8 lakh crore, small ruminants with Rs 3-4 lakh crores, and poultry contributing Rs 1.8 lakh crore.