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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">Progeny testing program was started in Nili-Ravi buffalo at Livestock Production</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">and Research Institute (LPRI), Bahadurnagar, Okara in 1979-80. Initially buffalo</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">bulls used at Livestock Experiment Station (LES) Qadirabad and Rakh Gulaman during</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">1964-78 were evaluated. Five out of ten at Rakh Gulaman and 10 out of 22 at Qadirabad</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">bulls were positive. As none of these bulls were available, therefore, sons and grandsons of</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">these bulls were selected for production of future candidate bulls. All the buffaloes at LPRI</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">were evaluat`ed on Most Probable Producing Ability. The elite herd thus formed was used</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">for production for future candidate bulls. Since then a continuous program is in operation at</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">Govt. Livestock Farms and expanded to 27 field sub-centers involving private farmers in four</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">districts Okara, Sahiwal, Faisalabad and Pakpattan. Since the initiation of this program in</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">1980&rsquo;s, about 174 bulls have been put under progeny testing program and 137 bulls were</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">evaluated by Daughter-Dam Comparison, out of which sixty eight buffalo bulls contributed</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">positively in milk production of daughters. It is worth mentioning here that milk production</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Times;">of registered buffalo was recorded on monthly intervals in the field along with other necessary</p> <span style="font-family: Times, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reproduction data required to compute the different traits of economic importance.</span>Progeny testing program was started in Nili-Ravi buffalo at Livestock Production and Research Institute (LPRI), Bahadurnagar, Okara in 1979-80. Initially buffalo bulls used at Livestock Experiment Station (LES) Qadirabad and Rakh Gulaman during 1964-78 were evaluated. Five out of ten at Rakh Gulaman and 10 out of 22 at Qadirabad bulls were positive. As none of these bulls were available, therefore, sons and grandsons of these bulls were selected for production of future candidate bulls. All the buffaloes at LPRI were evaluat`ed on Most Probable Producing Ability. The elite herd thus formed was used for production for future candidate bulls. Since then a continuous program is in operation at Govt. Livestock Farms and expanded to 27 field sub-centers involving private farmers in four districts Okara, Sahiwal, Faisalabad and Pakpattan. Since the initiation of this program in 1980&rsquo;s, about 174 bulls have been put under progeny testing program and 137 bulls were evaluated by Daughter-Dam Comparison, out of which sixty eight buffalo bulls contributed positively in milk production of daughters. It is worth mentioning here that milk production of registered buffalo was recorded on monthly intervals in the field along with other necessary reproduction data required to compute the different traits of economic importance.