Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes

Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar, a public funded, world's largest premier institute for the buffalo research, is located 170 km from Delhi, at Hisar in the north Indian state of Haryana. CIRB, with over 20 laboratories for the buffalo research on more than 10 native and several other breeds, is world's largest research institute with the widest range of breeds under research. To improve the breed and disseminate the information, CIRB has sold over 1,000 superior bulls, conducted ~200,000 artificial insemination in the field for the farmers’ buffaloes with 41% conception rate, distributed ~520,000 progeny tested frozen semen kits to 45,000 farmers and over 250 institutes, imparted training to several thousand farmers on advanced buffalo husbandry, created world's first and most comprehensive online Buffalopedia in several languages. It has a large research partner network across India and globe. It is world's seconds institute to successfully clone the buffalo in 2016, after the first successful cloning was achieved by the National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal in 2010 .

India has world's 58% buffaloes and 35% of India's cattle are buffaloes. Buffalo milk is 70% of the total milk yield in India, with its national GDP share being larger than wheat and rice combined. Buffalo meat makes up 86% of India's total meat export, earning INR 26,000 crore (US$4 billion) in 2013-14. CIRB makes high quality semen available for the buffalo breeding at a very low cost to India's farmers. Semen and buffaloes, specially Murrah buffalo, are also exported to other nations world wide for the improvement of the breed.

It came into existence in 1985 when the Progeny Testing Bull Farm Hisar, which was earlier part of the , was transferred from the Government of Haryana state to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research for research on Buffaloes (CIRB). In 1987, a sub-campus near the Bir Dosanjh Wildlife Sanctuary at Nabha in Patiala District was opened in 1987, to undertake research on Nili-Ravi breed found in Punjab. In 2016, it became world's second center to produce cloned buffalo. The first ever successful cloning of buffalo was done by the National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal in 2010