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 March 2024, the following activities have been completed:

1. Signed the Implementation Agreement .

2. Held the stakeholders kickoff meeting.

3. Repair of two old livestock buildings to increase space for breeding livestock.

4. Visited and advised 58 farming households

5. Developed selection criteria for satellite farms and selected one satellite farm.

Project Contact：TINGYU CHOU

Phone：+886-2-28886052

E-mail：t.y.chou@icdf.org.tw

Signing Date：2023-08-25