Strategies For Enhancement In Food Production

Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer technology, abbreviated as MOET, is a programme used for herd improvement in which a high-milk-yielding or otherwise superior cow is hormonally stimulated to produce many eggs at once instead of the usual single ovum. These eggs are fertilised, and the resulting early embryos are recovered and transferred into surrogate mothers, so a single genetically superior cow can contribute to many offspring in a year, greatly accelerating breeding progress. Artificial insemination is incorrect because, although it introduces selected semen into the female, it does not involve recovering and transferring multiple embryos to surrogates as described. Inbreeding is wrong because it refers to mating closely related animals within the same breed to fix desirable traits, not embryo transfer. Out-crossing is incorrect since it is the mating of unrelated animals of the same breed to introduce new genetic vigour, again not an embryo-transfer method. As explained in NCERT Class 12, Chapter 9 (Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production), MOET is applied to cattle, sheep, and other livestock for rapid genetic improvement. As a consistency check, only MOET combines multiple ovulation with embryo transfer to surrogates, confirming it as the correct technique.