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The Nili-Ravi is a breed of domestic water buffalo of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.cite-ref-dad2-2-2[2]cite-ref-bianca-4-4[4] It is similar to the Murrah breed of buffalo, and is reared mainly for dairy use. The average milk yield is approximately 2000 kg per year; the record yield is 6535 kg in a lactation of 378 days.cite-ref-bianca-4-5[4]

It is distributed mainly in the Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Faizabad, Lahore, Multan, Okara, Sahiwal and Sheikhupura districts of the Pakistani Punjab and the Amritsar, Firozpur and Gurdaspur districts of the Indian Punjab.cite-ref-nddb-5-0[5]

cite-note-barb-11. Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.

cite-note-dad2-22. Transboundary breed: Nili-Ravi. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2025.

cite-note-ijas-32. Jesus Reggeti (2010). Water buffaloes in Venezuela. Italian Journal of Animal Science. 6 (Issue sup2: Proceedings of the 8th World Buffalo Congress, Caserta, October 19-22, 2007): 155–161. doi:10.4081/ijas.2007.s2.155. (subscription required).

cite-note-bianca-44. Bianca Moioli, Antonio Borghese (2005). Buffalo Breeds and Management Systems. In Antonio Borghese (editor) (2005). Buffalo Production and Research. REU Technical Series 67. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Pages: 51–76.

cite-note-nddb-55. ↑ Nili-Ravi. Dairy Knowledge Portal. Anand, Gujarat: National Dairy Development Board. Accessed June 2025.