- For setting up of a branch in Gujarat of National Research Centre on Camel (NRCC), Bikaner, an appropriate size of land and other resources on nominal cost/lease basis is desired from the Government of Gujarat.
Steps to protect Kharai camels:-
- Kharai camel has been characterized, registered and gazette notified as breed by DARE/ICAR. (Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), organization under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE))
- NRCC has signed an MoU with Kamdhenu University, Gujarat for further breed conservation and development by
(i) Training of farmers for scientific camel husbandry;
(ii) Organizing Scientist-farmers interaction meetings;
(iii) Holding animal health camps;
(iv) Providing technical support for development of the entrepreneurship towards the camel milk.
Following is being carried out by NRCC, Bikaner to protect double humped camel in Ladakh:-
- Camel health management by organizing health camps in Nubra valley.
- Nutritional management by utilizing local feed resources.
- Nubra is a subdivision and a tehsil in the Indian union territory of Ladakh. Its inhabited areas form a tri-armed valley cut by the Nubra and Shyok