Peru: More than 8,800 families benefited from the Cattle Beef Project in Puno

The Cattle Beef project of the Andean Pradera Rural Development Support Program of the Puno Regional Government presented its achievements during 2024, having as its scope of intervention 9 provinces and 29 districts, benefiting 262 organizations and 8,815 Puno families. It achieved the delivery of 180 demonstration modules for fattening cattle, each of them implemented with a gram scale, a grinding mill and a veterinary kit. On the other hand, it promotes the genetic improvement of beef cattle through artificial insemination, with semen straws of the Simmental or Fleckvieh, Angus and Charolais breeds, in more than 6,000 cows, with a 70% success rate. Subsequently, the identification, registration and monitoring of the offspring born by artificial insemination was carried out. Producers were also trained in the preparation of balanced feed for beef cattle, recording the weight of the bulls at each stage of fattening. In addition, the slaughterhouses of El Collao and Azángaro are ...