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Also known as Pakistani buffalo

The Nili-Ravi is a breed of domestic water buffalo of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is similar to the Murrah breed of buffalo, and is reared mainly for dairy use. The average milk yield is approximately per year; the record yield is in a lactation of 378 days.

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The Nili-Ravi is a breed of domestic water buffalo of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is similar to the Murrah breed of buffalo, and is reared mainly for dairy use. The average milk yield is approximately per year; the record yield is in a lactation of 378 days.

It is distributed mainly in the Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Faizabad, Lahore, Multan, Okara, Sahiwal and Sheikhupura districts of the Pakistani Punjab and the Amritsar, Firozpur and Gurdaspur districts of the Indian Punjab.

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