South Korea: Accelerator pedal for development of new goat breeds led by the state

[Livestock Newspaper Reporter Kim Soo-hyung] As goat meat has recently emerged as a health food and demand has rapidly increased, the Rural Development Administration announced that it will develop a new goat breed that can be industrialized using three strains of traditional black goats that it has preserved. The National Institute of Animal Science (Director Lim Ki-soon) of the Rural Development Administration announced that it plans to import a total of 100 goats by the end of the year, following the import of 37 Boer goats with confirmed three-generation bloodlines from New Zealand last month. The plan is to develop a new breed with black fur, high productivity, excellent meat quantity, and meat quality using three strains of foreign large breeds and domestic traditional black goats, ‘Dangjin strain’, ‘Jangsu strain’, and ‘Tongyeong strain’. This year, it plans to produce 20 goats as synthetic goats and increase the number of goats to 200 by 2027 to build a herd. In ...