MASTITIS AILMENT

Context: The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) - India, an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India has recently entered into a Technology Transfer arrangement for these indigenous technologies with Indian Genomix, a Hyderabad-based company which has W.H.O.G.M.P. certification ensuring quality assurance for medicinal products.

• A technology transfer arrangement can help to scale two environment-friendly technologies - an indigenous herbal formulation with the potential to control Mastitis, an ailment common among dairy animals, and an indigenous herbal supplement with positive influence on growth performance of broiler chicks, for end users.

Mastitis Ailment

• Mastitis is an ailment causing huge losses to dairy farmers.
• The ailment is primarily caused by bacteria which need to be diagnosed and treated at the earliest.
• Indian farming system faces challenges in early diagnosis, availability of onsite treatment, and drug resistance.
• Further, lack of effective technology in field situation calls for alternative technologies.
• This indigenous herbal formulation was found to control major causative bacterial organisms like Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
• This herbal formulation has multiple phyto-constituents which produce effective results against field bacterial strains.
• The unique formulation of the Knowledge holders was evaluated for its efficacy in clinical bacterial mastitis among dairy animals.