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A herd of cattle is showing reduced fertility and productivity. Provide one reason and one suggestion to overcome this problem.

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A herd of cattle showing reduced fertility and productivity because of inbreeding depression. Whenever such problem occurs, the selected animal should be mated with the unrelated superior animal of the same breed. Such breeding helps to restore the fertility and productivity.

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