A Korean-type goat is being developed to boost productivity and revitalize the industry by 2030

The government will develop and distribute the Korean-style goat, the ‘Korean Black Goat’, by 2030 to lay the foundation for the goat industry, which is suffering from difficulties such as a decline in livestock production due to promiscuous breeding. The National Institute of Animal Science, Rural Development Administration, recently held a ‘Symposium for Establishing Research Plans to Activate the Goat Industry’ at the Livestock Genetic Resources Center of the National Livestock Research Institute in Hamyang, Gyeongnam, and announced this. Recently, as demand for goat meat has increased, the goat industry has also entered the stage of entering the large-scale stage. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, goat production increased threefold from KRW 59.5 billion in 2018 to KRW 177.5 billion in 2021. The number of livestock also doubled from 280,000 in 2015 to 440,000 in 2021. As of 2021, the number of livestock farms was 19,822, the second largest ...