FAO adds the Mexican Pelifolk sheep to the Global Domestic Animal Diversity Information System

2000Agro/Editorial The Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) announced that the sheep breed Pelifolk, the first 100 percent Mexican, obtained recognition from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, by its acronym in English) by incorporating it into the Global Information System of the Diversity of Domestic Animals. It's about a recognition of national sheep culture and the creation of this breed Mexican, stressed when celebrating the meeting in Zapotlanejo, Jalisco: “Our wealth: The Pelifolk sheep.” As part of this distinction, a commemorative Lottery ticket was also unveiled National, with a jackpot of seven million pesos in one series and one distributable bag of 24 million pesos in prizes. The coordinator General of Livestock of the Ministry of Agriculture, Arturo Macosay Córdova, He highlighted that this recognition is for the work of the producers, the contribution of sheep farming to the diet of Mexicans and to development of ...