Turkey: Distributed with the support of the state in Muş in 2018, its number is increasing day by day

Published 2022년 10월 7일

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The article highlights the economic benefits of buffalo farming in Muş, Turkey, a region known for its animal husbandry. The initiative, backed by the state in 2018, has led to an increase in buffalo numbers, becoming a significant source of income for local farmers. These farmers have seen a rise in product prices and demand for buffalo milk, cheese, butter, and yogurt. The breeders, who have been engaging in this trade for generations, credit their livelihood to buffalo farming, with some villages having as many as 800 buffaloes. The success of this enterprise is largely due to the abundant water and mud available, essential for buffalo survival.

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The buffaloes, which were distributed with the support of the state in Muş in 2018 and whose number is increasing day by day, became a source of income for the citizens engaged in animal husbandry. In Muş, which is one of the important animal husbandry centers of Turkey with 1 million 300 thousand ovine and 350 thousand bovine animals, the citizens who make their living by fattening show interest in state-supported buffalo breeding. Citizens who make a living by feeding buffalo buy the amount of milk, cheese, butter and yoghurt they need to their homes, while selling surplus products. The buffaloes, which are milked twice a day, spend most of the day in the wetland near the village. "We increased the number of mandates with the support of the state" Algeria Güngör, one of the breeders dealing with water buffalo in Sazlıkbaşı village of Korkut district, said that animal husbandry was a profession inherited from their grandfather. Expressing that buffalo farming has been carried out ...

Source: Kamu3