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Stop Stallions Equine Artificial Insemination Centre, located in the facilities of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Training and Experience (CIFE) of Lorca, inseminating this year to more than a hundred mares for breeding race.
The secretary general of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, Francisco Moreno, today visited the center, accompanied by Councilman Livestock Lorca, Melchor Morales, and the CEOs of Food Industry and Agricultural Training, Angel Garcia Lidón, and Livestock and Fisheries, Carmen Teodora Morales.
Moreno stressed the importance of this center as a "reference in technology applied in equine reproduction" and highlighted the "technical support and personnel" that performs the insemination center, which provides coverage to other areas bordering on the extraction and shipping of semen.
Agriculture Secretary General explained that "although it has declined the number of mares covered, the stop Lorca continues to maintain the same activity over other stallions centers", with more than a hundred mares inseminated.
Furthermore, the fertility rate obtained in recent years exceeded 80 percent.
The stop is composed of horses belonging to deposit Ecija Stallion and other herds in the region for the extraction of semen.
This insemination center was established in 2006, under a collaboration agreement between the Department and the City.
It facilitates the covering of mares to farmers who request it, with natural mating reproductive techniques and artificial insemination, from March to June.
It will also develop training and research programs and is approved by the European Community for the handling, removal, refrigeration, freezing and sending genetic material from equine species worldwide.
The regional equine sector has a total of 1,500 farms and 11,000 cattle, of which approximately 50 percent are purebred.
The most dynamic regions are the Upper Guadalentin, Cartagena-Mar Menor and Murcia.
The Ministry of Agriculture provides soon formalize collaboration agreements with the Association of Pure Breeds Breeders Region and the City of Lorca to promote artificial insemination and genetic improvement of the cabin equine semen freezing and horse training of the stud.
Source: CARM
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