Biotechnology is currently an essential tool to assure competitiveness in agriculture and cattle raising. The development of technologies in the molecular and cellular fields requires the implementation of appropriate substructure and constant researchers training.  

It was with these ideas that the Fazendas Mata Velha and Vergel Agropecuária, both known by its quality and competence in this field, got together to create GENEAL, an animal biotechnology specialized company.

With its headquarter placed in the town of Uberaba, GENEAL is organizing a state-of-the-art laboratory, in addition to a highly qualified technical and scientific team that has broad experience in IVF, Genotyping and Cloning techniques.

Due to the molecular genetics advance and to the powerful methods of DNA technology advance, it is possible nowadays to see beyond the external appearances and to look for interesting selection information in an animal’s DNA.

The information found in the animal’s genes can be recognized at the time of its birth or even earlier in the embryonary phase. This is the easiest, most practical and safest way to program mating. Selection and genetic improvement programs are accelerated and useless efforts are spared, along with time and money economy. The genotyping technique adds market value to the animals and their hereditary features are no longer merely considered a probability matter. The first service to be offered in this section is the paternity examination.

The conclusion achieved by FDA – Food and Drug Administration – announced in the United States of America, concerning the fact that meat and milk consumption of cattle clones do not represent a human health risk, emphasizes the importance of the technique for the national cattle raising and brings great perspectives to the bovine cloning.

The animal cloning unquestionably represents one of the most important advances obtained until nowadays in the field of animal biotechnology. The nuclear transference (NT) technique used in animal cloning has several applications in different strategic sectors, as scientific and productive ones.

In the productive sector, the nuclear transference can be applied to optimize even more the genetic improvement programs and the recovery of injured animals or dead animals.

Aware of the importance of this technology, GENEAL invests in its development by means of research while the country defines the legal instruments for the use of cloning.

In beef and dairy cattle, one of the main limitations of the reproductive efficiency and genetic improvement is the gap of generations. Historically speaking, this intermission has been mostly reduced through the development of reproductive biotechnologies, in which the in vitro Fertilization – IVF – outstands. What makes this biotechnology unique is that it:

- Provides the biggest number of descendents of genetically superior animals in the same period of time, rising the profitability per animal;

- Reduces gap and generations;

- Is applicable in several reproductive phases of the female bovine: prepubescent heifer, pregnant (until 100 days), after parturition, cyclic and senile cows;

- Exempts the intensive hormone use;

- Utilizes animals that do not respond to superovulation;

- Optimizes the semen use and the mating planning;

- Presents the best cost-benefit relationship when compared the other existent techniques.