The Philippines plans to import this year more than 3,000 goats and sheep from Australia to help improve the quality of the local livestock breed, Australian Ambassador Rod Smith said.
Smith said the goats would be used primarily for cross-breeding, to increase meat production and to capitalize on the rising demand for goat’s milk.
He said 1,900 Boer (meat goats), Anglo Nubians and Saanens (dairy goats) and 1,200 Dorper sheep were due to arrive in the Philippines over the next two months, after a series of visits by Philippine breeders to farms in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria facilitated by the Australian Trade Commission. Amy R. Remo
