Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) today said it has dispatched its first tanker of liquid nitrogen to Assam Livestock Development Agency.
The first tanker carrying liquid nitrogen (LN) of 99.95 per cent purity was dispatched from the refinery's Marketing Terminal at Numaligarh to Assam Livestock Development Agency (ALDA) here, NRL said in a release here.
The LN sourced from NRL would be used by ALDA for storing and transporting high yielding cattle semen for artificial insemination of local cattle, it said.
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This would help high milk yielding cattle, giving a boost to the agricultural and animal husbandry sector of the state.
LN has wide industrial applications in refrigeration industry, refineries and oil exploration, it added.
