May 10, 2021
Livestock Breeding Program Gets Equipment from Taiwan
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise has received a tractor with forage harvester, a used Mitsubishi four-wheel drive pickup, and other farm implements from the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Belize. The donation will be used at the National Sheep and Goat Breeding Center in Central Farm. The tractor and forage harvester combined with attachments for bush-hog, plow and harrow, post-hole drill, front-end loader and a sixteen-foot trailer has a combined value of one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars. The equipment will be used for harvesting of grass and forage to feed the four hundred head of sheep and goats at the center. Taiwanese Ambassador David Kuan-Chou Chien handed over the donation to Minister Jose Abelardo Mai and C.E.O. Servulo Baeza.
Feb 4, 2021
More Affordable Sheep and Goat Stocks Coming for Farmers!
Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise Abelardo Mai has been on a countrywide tour in the past weeks. He has been visiting farmers and other producers in the agro-productive sector. That tour took him to Central Farm today to learn more about the sheep and goat breeding project. It’s a joint venture between Taiwan and Belize through which quality breeding stocks of sheep and goat are made available for farmers. But since the project started back in 2015, only about twenty percent of the goat and sheep farmers in Belize have taken advantage of the stocks. But that is about to change, following Mai’s tour of the facility. Here’s the story.