Vision, Mission & Mandate
Vision
Generation of relevant technologies in equine health and production and capacity building for competitive draught animal power (DAP) utilization in agriculture and rural transport. The Centre also focuses on utilizing other equine products and providing services, particularly to the underprivileged members of society, under the fast-changing environmental and socio-economic scenario.
Mission
- Achieving freedom from dreaded equine diseases through the development of modern diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutic agents, along with proper disease surveillance, monitoring, forecasting and strategic control and eradication measures.
- Transfer of germplasm of superior donkey and indigenous horse breeds for improvement of horses in their home tracts using Artificial Insemination and Embryo Transfer Technology, with an aim to establish an embryo bank of Marwari and Kathiawari horses to enhance export of superior germplasm.
- Enhancing the performance of working equids, especially in arid, semi-arid and mountainous regions.
- Income generation through market intelligence activities, especially through other products and services provided by equines.
Mandate
- Basic and strategic research on equine health and production.
- To provide advisory and consultancy services and capacity development.