Guyana Livestock

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Guyana - Livestock

Livestock

Livestock production was not a major activity in Guyana because of a shortage of adequate pasture land and the lack of adequate transportation. In 1987 there were an estimated 210,000 cattle, 185,000 pigs, 120,000 sheep, and 15 million chickens in the country. The country imported Cuban Holstein-Zebu cattle in the mid-1980s in an effort to make Guyana self-sufficient in milk production; by 1987 annual production had reached 32 million liters, or only half the target quantity.

 
You can read more regarding this subject on the following websites:

Guyana Livestock Development Authority - Home | Facebook
GLDA | Ministry of Agriculture
Guyana Livestock production index, 1960-2017 - knoema.com
Guyana - Livestock Project (English) | The World Bank
Guyana Livestock Development Authority Act (Cap. 71:10).


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