{"id":7399,"date":"2022-11-27T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:59:12","slug":"himalayan-yak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/himalayan-yak\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan Yak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Himalayan Yak<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yaks belong to the genus Bos and are therefore related to cattle (Bos primigenius species).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Domestic Yak (Bos Grunniens) descended from the wild yak (Bos mutus).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Yak is found throughout the Himalayan region &#8212; Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, North Bengal, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir &#8212; while wild Yak is found in Tibet.<\/li>\n<li>It is also found as far north as Mongolia and Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Research Centre on Yak:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government of India established the ICAR-National Research Centre on Yak, in 1989 at Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh as a dedicated centre for research into yak husbandry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yak Census 2019:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>According to a census carried out in 2019, India has some 58,000 yaks \u2013 a drop of about 25% from the livestock census of 2012.<\/li>\n<li>The drastic decline could be attributed to less remuneration from the bovid and discouraging the younger generations from continuing with nomadic yak rearing.<\/li>\n<li>The sale of yak milk and meat is limited to local consumers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaks belong to the genus Bos and are therefore related to cattle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}