Project Name：Improving Livestock Rearing Project

Project status：Projects in Operation

Cooperating Country：Caribbean, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Project Description：

St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Economic and Social Development Plan 2013 – 2025 outlines that the strategic focus is to boost the agricultural sector’s competitiveness and promote economic diversification. Facilitating livestock commercialization is one of the main focuses of this plan. To achieve this, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour proposed technical cooperation plans for the development of the pig, sheep and goat sectors, with the aim of improving breeding technology to increase production, enhance livestock nutrition and promote commercial success.

Implementation Start Date：2023-08-25

Implementation End Date：2026-12-31

Project Objectives：

Increase the supply of high quality breeding stock at the national livestock breeding and multiplication centers including increasing the supply of breeding pigs by 60% (to an annual output of 320 pigs) and increasing the supply of breeding sheep by 4 times (to an annual output of 160 sheep and goat).

Executing Agency：

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour/ Taiwan Technical Mission

Current Progress：

To the end of December 2024, the following activities have been completed：

1.Visited and provided guidance to local pig and sheep farmers, totaling 127 visits.

2. Held 6 training session about livestock breeding  with a total of 101 participants.

3. Held 3 demonstration and observation sessions on improved farming techniques, with a total of 68 participants

4.Assisted the Ministry of Agriculture of Saint Vincent in establishing a sample submission system for the nutritional analysis laboratory, analyzing the nutritional composition of various locally grown forage crops, and developing different feed formulations for farmers' use.

5.Renovated the sheep barn at the Rabacca National Breeding Farm and held an inauguration ceremony on October 27.

6. planning artificial insemination laboratory. 

Project Contact：WENPIN CHEN

Phone：+886-2-28886022

E-mail：wp.chen@icdf.org.tw

Signing Date：2023-08-25