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SHEEP AND GOAT BREEDING IN EASTERN CROATIA – STATUS AND POTENTIALS OF DEVELOPMENT
Zvonko Antunović
; Zavod za stočarstvo, Poljoprivredni fakultet u Osijeku, Osijek, Hrvatska
Josip Novoselec
; Zavod za stočarstvo, Poljoprivredni fakultet u Osijeku, Osijek, Hrvatska
Željka Klir
; Zavod za stočarstvo, Poljoprivredni fakultet u Osijeku, Osijek, Hrvatska
Boro Mioč
; Zavod za specijalno stočarstvo, Agronomski fakultet, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Vesna Pavić
; Zavod za specijalno stočarstvo, Agronomski fakultet, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The aim of the present paper is to analyze the status of sheep and goats in Eastern Croatia, and to present the potential of their possible development. In the Unified Register of sheep and goats in the end of year 2015, 615 717 breeding sheep and 73 835 breeding goats were registered in Croatia. In Eastern Croatian, the territory to which belongs five Slavonian counties (Osijek-Baranja, Vukovar- Syrmia, Požega-Slavonia, Brod-Posavina and Virovitica-Podravina), 109 547 breeding sheep and 6 791 breeding goats were recorded, which is 17.79% of sheep and 9.20% of the total number of goats in the Republic of Croatia. From that number 5 902 valid breeding sheep and 151 valid breeding goats were registered. In mentioned counties, a significant trend of reducing the number of sheep was observed in the last five years. In the Republic of Croatia 16 breeds of sheep are reared, of which 9 are original and 7 foreign breeds. In the Eastern Croatia entire population of breeding Tsigai in Croatia is reared, and breeding of Merinolandschaf (84.91%) is also significant. In Eastern Croatia the main breeding goal of sheep is production of meat, especially lamb, and in goat breeding milk production. Production of sheep and especially goat milk in the territory of Eastern Croatia is more frequent. Production of sheep milk is encouraged by import of East Friesian sheep that is counted about 150 breeding sheep and by import of Travnik Pramenka from Bosnia and Herzegovina on the territory of Virovitica-Podravina county where 2 500 sheep are reared. The sheep milk is commonly processed into cheese, and there is increasing demand of dairy industry for it. In Croatia, there is no systematic organized purchase of wool and there is a problem of its disposal that is more pronounced. In recent years goat breeding in Eastern Croatia is more interesting field of animal husbandry, particularly milk production. Goat farming is organized into mini farms (30-60 goats), whose main product is milk, that is usually processed into cheese in family farms. In the Republic of Croatia as well as in Eastern Croatia breeding of foreign goats is significant and these goats are well adapted to our conditions of rearing and systematically are monitored by breeding selection work. There are many Alpine population of goats, and in recent years an increasing number of Boer goats (48,84% of the total number in the Republic of Croatia), which are reared in the Eastern Croatia. Alpine goats are primarily intended for the production of milk, while the Boer goat, in the pure blood, or in the form of different hybrids is used almost exclusively for meat production – young goat meat. Adjusting to EU laws and by introducing new scientific, technical and technological achievements in the field of sheep and goat production came to creating new breeding programs in the field of sheep and goats, which is certain progress in these productions. Better use of underutilized pastures and the food industry by-products which are abundant in this area, indicates significant development potential of sheep and goats in Eastern Croatia. It requires a lot of work, with a commitment to increase the population of sheep and goats, as well as significant investments in modernization and wider use of new technological procedure in order to raise productivity, improve welfare and quality of better monitoring the health of individual animals and herds of sheep and goats, and
increase economic efficiency in sheep and goat production.
Ključne riječi
The Eastern Croatia; sheep breeding; goat breeding; status; development potential
Hrčak ID:
180246
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Datum izdavanja:
21.4.2017.
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