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Suriname now taking breeding sheep from Guyana

Jun 21, 2011 News

Guyana has now developed quality breeding sheep with neighbouring Suriname recently receiving four of the animals.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Guyana and Suriname have been collaborating and supporting each other’s livestock programme.
“It has been long recognised by developing countries that crossing appropriate breeds with indigenous breeds bring tremendous gains in terms of other desirable traits. The most recent cooperation between Guyana and Suriname allowed for the movement of pure bred pigs which have been utilised in reinvigorating the pork industry in Guyana.”
For several years, Guyana has been doing cross breeding work in sheep utilising imported as well as local breeds of sheep to improve on parameters such as meatiness, lambing capacity, feed conversion, heat tolerance and growth rate.
“Our success has been visible and our farmers have been responding positively in adopting the animals being produced. Indeed the demand for our improved breed of sheep has far out stripped our capacity to supply. In the market place, mutton consumers too are demonstrating strong support for the product.”
While the country’s sheep production has witnessed modest progress, it has also captured the attention of farmers in Suriname who have expressed an interest in procuring breeding animals from Guyana.
Today that interest has manifested itself in the first shipment of four sheep, all of breeding age, to Suriname. These animals have gone through the full gamut of procedures related to health and are now in Suriname, the Ministry said in a release.

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