Formosa looks for to increase the productivity of the goat roundup

Private investments and official investigation are the tools to obtain it

FORMOSA. - One recognized company/signature decided to install a refrigerator and plants processor of smaller animal meat in the Lomitas, specially goats, ewes, and pigs. The expectation, to medium term, will be to operate with buffalos, that in important amounts already exist in this province.

Boers Valle Morado SA, that it anticipates to complete his facilities in just a short time, including also a tannery is the refrigerating company (that would initiate its activities at the beginning of 2004).

The proprietors of the company/signature are the brothers Miguel and Julio Mellano, who count on projects of primary and industrial productive development in several provinces of the Argentine north and in Buenosairean territory.

Before local authorities, the industralists exposed all the details of their decision to settle down before year end this refrigerator in the Lomitas that, is considered, will generate an increase of the goat roundups in the zone (considering the benefit of fixed prices because the sale and the processing will be developed in the same place, so that the producers will not have to hope that the trucks come from other provinces to become of cash).

The company already has an establishment to about 20 kilometers of the Lomitas. The Mellano brothers took root there after accepting an invitation of the government to observe the potentialities of Formosa for the development of the goat cattle and the possibilities of obtaining a forage of high quality with low cost. Then they acquired a field and they began to work. Today they reunite there about 500 goat ones.

These investors make this same activity in Jumps, Santiago of the Matting, Catamarca yBuenos Airs.

"In addition to the task itself also the meat accused will become, that is industrial activities that will generate an important devalor amount added", Jorge Balonga said, director of the Project of Development of the Center the Formoseño West (Prodeco), in which these investments are developed. The civil employee indicated that in that zone a novel industrial evolution will be reached ", with all the implicancia on the quality of life of the villagers, that in progressive form surely will be letting back the modality raise goats for their subsistence and will obtain an attractive yield by their animals", explained.

One admits that much demand of goat meat, since the existing market is totally insatisfecho, in the province as in the rest of país.Sin exists as much embargo, Balonga esteem that "will be necessary to work in marketing, and to find the way to give specific cuts so that the consumer can choose".

"From his structure of very traditional handling, in Formosa always it has been tried to improve the goat roundups, for which they brought animals improved from Salta or Paraguay. This was a constant preoccupation of the small producer ", recognized Balonga.

The civil employee explained that in the official levels seestá working in all the aggregate chain of value of the goat cattle. By a side the animal obtaining improved and, by the other, the transfer detoda information to the producer, not only the genetics but on handling, also touching to investors so that they come to settle.

By means of a specific policy in the Center of Validation of Farming Technologies (Cedeva), the first provincial goat cabin registered to solve two subjects. The first and main one was the one to have the adaptation of a race of crossover adapted for the zone and, also the one to have the genetics in amount to be distributed to the producers quickly.

The second aspect has to do with the validation of goat productive models, directly in the lots of the producers of the zone of Lagoon Yolk and the Lomitas.

To this end it is that a veterinarian who takes care of the roundups, in addition to a sanitary plan and nourishing handling exists.

It emphasized Balonga that "with some producers we are having very good results just by the handling of the nourishing chain and genetic improvement, since the rate of birth increased, as also the weight of the cabrito when being born".

The civil employee precisó:"Los Creole cabritos are being born with 1.6 kilo, and are very few those that manage to both reach kilos, whereas those that sonfrutos of the lightings of cruzatienen it between 2.8 and 3 kilos".

In another order, Balonga said that the Cedeva is working with two lines of goats: the Anglian race Nubiany the Boers race, by means of units that were contributed by the company of the Mellano brothers. These animals were new recruits like parents of the provincial cabin, and will be presented/displayed in the rural exhibition of Palermo, in next July.