Peru: They build 100 sheds to protect 10,000 head of cattle in Pasco

The Rural Agrarian Productive Development Program (Agro Rural), of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), built 100 sheds that have been delivered to small family farmers in Pasco, in order to protect more than 10,000 head of cattle due to low temperatures. There are more than 100 families that have benefited from the implementation of these sheds in the Pasqueño districts of Ninacaca, Simón Bolívar, Huayllay, Vicco, Ticlacayán, Yanacancha, Chaupimarca, Yanahuanca and Santa Ana de Tusi. The sheds, in addition to protecting the cattle against adverse climatic phenomena (snowfall, hail, heavy rain and frost), reduce mortality and morbidity and thus facilitate livestock activities such as fiber or wool shearing, mating, calving of animals and feeding; strengthening agricultural production. The livestock population that will be protected includes females ...