Gyeonggi Province, successful breeding of the nation's first 'Italian water buffalo'

[Chungsan News Reporter Min Byung-jin] Premium Dairy Market Anticipates New Breakthrough Gyeonggi Province has succeeded in breeding Italian water buffalos for the first time in the country. Gyeonggi Province announced that six Italian water buffalo calves were born in January at a livestock farm in Yeoju City, which has been raising 30 Italian water buffalos since May 2024. The successful production of Italian water buffalo calves is the first in the country. The Gyeonggi Livestock Promotion Center is promoting the "Dairy Breed Diversification Breeding Support Project" to break the chronic limitation of a single breed structure in the domestic dairy industry and to enter the premium dairy market by supporting the breeding of high-quality breeds such as Italian water buffalos. The center explained that it overcame the difficulty of breeding by supporting artificial insemination using its own developed water buffalo-specific frozen semen manufacturing technology and estrus ...