Livestock Breeding Program Gets Equipment from Taiwan

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise has received a tractor with forage harvester, a used Mitsubishi four-wheel drive pickup, and other farm implements from the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Belize.  The donation will be used at the National Sheep and Goat Breeding Center in Central Farm.  The tractor and forage harvester combined with attachments for bush-hog, plow and harrow, post-hole drill, front-end loader and a sixteen-foot trailer has a combined value of one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.  The equipment will be used for harvesting of grass and forage to feed the four hundred head of sheep and goats at the center.  Taiwanese Ambassador David Kuan-Chou Chien handed over the donation to Minister Jose Abelardo Mai and C.E.O. Servulo Baeza.