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Hester Biosciences

Hester Biosciences is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Hester Biosciences rather than just read about it. In short: Hester Biosciences Limited (HBL) is a publicly traded Indian animal and poultry vaccines manufacturing company, headquartered in Ahmedabad. Hester has plants situated in Gujarat and Nepal.

Key takeaways

Hester Biosciences belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Hester Biosciences to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Hester Biosciences from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Hester Biosciences Limited (HBL) is a publicly traded Indian animal and poultry vaccines manufacturing company, headquartered in Ahmedabad. Hester has plants situated in Gujarat and Nepal. Hester has a 30% share of the poultry vaccines market in India, making it the country's second largest poultry vaccine manufacturer. Hester is also the first commercial manufacturer of goat pox vaccine in India and manufactures PPR vaccines from both, Nigerian and Sungri strains.

Finances Hester equity shares are listed on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) as HESTERBIO and on the BSE (Security Code: 524669). They are also the owners of subsidiaries including Hester Biosciences Africa, and have acquired other company's like Gujarat Agrofarm (which they purchased in 2007). As on 31 March 2019, market capitalisation of the company stood at Rs. 13.1 billion. The CEO and founder of the company is Rajiv Gandhi. For the Q1FY20 ended June 2019, Hester Biosciences registers 11% sales growth in Q1FY20; Nepal unit registers 64% revenue growth, construction of Africa unit underway.

Operations Hester creates products including vaccines, drugs, feed supplements and disinfectants. They have a line of 45 poultry vaccines (live and inactivated), 4 large animal vaccines (live and inactivated), health products and diagnostics. Hester also provides seromonitoring for poultry farms and mastitis prevention programmers for cattle farms. The company owns and operates Asia's largest single-location animal biological manufacturing facility. Hester Biosciences also has an R&D unit at Kadi, and develops new animal vaccines, an example of which is the Goat Pox vaccine Live-Uttarkashi strain used in India. They have also partnered with Galvmed on vaccines for Newcastle disease. The company is planning to increase its exports to the African region following good market potential and the need for animal vaccines in that region. Hester expects export revenues from Africa to increase to about 70 percent in the coming years from 40 to 45 percent currently. In the first nine months of the current fiscal, Hester's overall exports stood at Rs 12 crore, with Africa's share at 40-45 percent. Hester targets African market for poultry, animal healthcare products In 2026, Ravin Gandhi resigned from the board of Hester, citing professional and personal commitments that prevent him from devoting sufficient time to company affairs.

Recognition In 2010 Hester Biosciences received "The Best Animal Vaccine Company" honor from The New Economy in the UK.

See also Brucellosis Vaccine Goat Pox Vaccine Poultry disease FAO

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Hester Biosciences

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Hester Biosciences claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Hester Biosciences before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Hester Biosciences ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Hester Biosciences

In research: Hester Biosciences appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Hester Biosciences in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Hester Biosciences is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1983 establishments in Gujarat, Biotechnology in India, Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Hester Biosciences outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Hester Biosciences in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Hester Biosciences in simple terms?

Hester Biosciences Limited (HBL) is a publicly traded Indian animal and poultry vaccines manufacturing company, headquartered in Ahmedabad. Hester has plants situated in Gujarat and Nepal.

Why does Hester Biosciences matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Hester Biosciences?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Hester Biosciences.