Mandya
Also known as: Bannur, Bandur
Famous across India for producing the most tender and flavourful mutton — Bannur mutton commands the highest price in the country.
Mandya
Physical Characteristics
- Colour: white with a light brown or reddish-brown head
- Compact, blocky, well muscled body with a reversed U conformation
- Ears are long, drooping and often folded
- Small — 22 kg (female), 25 kg (male); both sexes polled
Benefits for Farmers
The most prized mutton in India — very high market premium
Excellent meat-to-bone ratio and dressing percentage
Compact size means low feed cost per animal
Strong, reliable demand keeps prices stable year round
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Breed Profile
- Species
- Sheep
- Utility
- Mutton
- Home Tract
- Mandya, Mysore, Bengaluru Rural and Tumkur
- Found In
- Karnataka
- Yield
- Mutton-focused; premium meat quality
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Chottanagpuri
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A small, extremely hardy sheep of the Chotanagpur plateau, maintained by tribal households on forest and wasteland grazing.
Wool: ~0.4 kg per year (very coarse); kept for mutton
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Malpura
Mutton
Malpura
Rajasthan
A fast-growing mutton breed of eastern Rajasthan, used as the base for the Avikalin and other improved sheep developed at CSWRI Avikanagar.
Mutton-focused; wool ~1 kg per year (coarse)
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Shahabadi
Mutton & Wool
Shahabadi
Bihar
The native sheep of the Shahabad region of Bihar, kept for mutton and coarse wool by smallholder and landless flocks in the Gangetic plain.
Wool: ~0.5–0.8 kg per year (coarse); reared mainly for mutton
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