Chandigarh: A team of scientists of Karnal-based National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) has successfully cloned a female calf from the cells of a high milk-producing buffalo.

Calf 'Swarupa' has been produced through the new and advanced 'Hand-guided Cloning Technique', while the donor cell was taken from the ear of an adult buffalo named 'Karan-Kirti' of the institute's farm, NDRI Director A K Srivastava said on Friday.