This report was sent in by Cristina Deza and Mario Poli (CR for Argentina). What is the current situation of the goats in Argentina? The goat stocks registered in the National Agricultural Census of 2002 went up to around 4,061,402 heads, which represents an increase of 16.4% with respect to the 2000 National Agricultural...

Sent in by Dr. Haim Leibovich (IGA Country Representative) and Yossef Carasso The Sheep and Goat industry in Israel In Israel there are about 2,400 farmers raising small ruminants (sheep and goats), keeping a total of about 520,000 animals. These farmers can be grouped into three different sectors – the intensive, the...

Goat population is population size reducing continuously beginning from 1990s.Actually Turkey has approximately 5.5 million head goat population of local breed that has low production capacity. Turkey goat population was given below table. Goat population of Turkey GOATS ORDINARY GOATS ANGORA YIL-YEAR (baş-...

Sent in by Dr. C. Devendra, IGA Country Representative On the technical side, Malaysia along with several countries in S.E. Asia and China are going through a difficult phase with the development of the goat sector. The reasons for this are associated inter alia with several factors: waning agriculture, uncontrolled excessive...

Sent in by Jackie Dunham, IGA Country Representative 1. What is the current situation of IGA in Canada? I have instituted an IGA column in my magazine, GoatKeeper (www.goatkeeper.ca), which goes to approximately 750 addresses across Canada. In this column, I feature stories and news from the IGA newsletter and website, in...