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02. Improving Animal Productivity
Agenda 16 aims at improving animal productivity to cope with environmental changes.
To this end, seven programs are conducted as follows:
Program 53
Improvement of the national animal improvement system and development of animal improvement technology in Hanwoo cattle, dairy cow, swine and poultry;
Program 54
Hanwoo feeding technology for high-quality beef production at lower cost;
Program 55
development of breeding, rearing, and disease management techniques to increase productivity of dairy cow;
Program 56
development of increasing swine productivity (MSY) and safe pork production technology;
Program 57
developing technology for exporting, novel poultry species, and productivity improving techniques;
Program 58
promoting domestic riding horse, developing technique for selection, and industrialization of outstanding breeding stocks using traditional domestic animals;
Program 59
improvement of productivity of grassland and forage plant per unit area, diversification of forage species, and quality improvement technique.
Moreover, Agenda 16 will contribute to increasing farm productivity by supplying outstanding domestic breeding stocks to farm and supply high-quality-low-cost livestock products to consumers. A new model of sustainable livestock industry is expected by the collaboration with tourism and leisure industry.