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More rural families in Brazil to receive animals

06/10/2014
Programmes for donating goats and sheep to small-scale rural farmers in remote parts of Brazil are continuing.

In 2013, the National Programme of Family Agriculture supported investment in goats by small farmers in the state of Ceará in the north-east of Brazil. Now, another programme is in place in Alagoas, another state in the same region, to set up rural families as sheep farmers.

A programme called Alagoas Mais Ovinos (More Sheep for Alagoas) has selected a total of 900 families in 28 municipalities to receive eight sheep each. The sheep are from a Brazilian breed, Santa Inês, which is renowned for coping well in dry climates and for producing good meat. Each family has received seven sheep and a ram to build up their own flocks.

Fecoep, a special fund to eradicate poverty in Brazil, put up the money for the thousands of sheep that the programme has given away.



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