Export of bull semen to Azerbaijan

With the aim of raising cattle with higher meat and milk yields, a total of 1 million 200 thousand doses of high-quality frozen bull semen are produced annually within the body of the General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises (TİGEM) attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the General Directorate for Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM), and the first export is Azerbaijan.

According to a written statement from the Ministry, studies continue to increase productivity in livestock. In the Sperm Production Center of Malatya Sultansuyu Agricultural Enterprise, affiliated with TİGEM, semen is obtained from bulls with high genetic capacity.

The centre, where approximately 38 per cent of frozen bull semen is produced, is the semen laboratory with the highest participation among the authorized laboratories in Turkey.

4.7 MILLION DOSES TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR

At the center, which produces 1 million doses of semen per year, approximately 4.7 million doses of the 6.5 million frozen bull semen produced to date have been sold to the private sector.

The first export from the center was made to Azerbaijan in June. Within the framework of the contract signed with Azerbaijan, 7,200 doses of frozen bull semen were exported. According to the agreement, this figure will reach 30,000 annual doses. Their goal is to breed cattle with higher meat and milk yields by using frozen semen delivered to farmers through the private sector.

In the Artificial Insemination Laboratory of the Directorate of the International Livestock Research and Training Center of the TAGEM, 200,000 doses of quality bull semen are produced annually. These are the Eastern Black Sea-Eastern Anatolia, Western Black Sea-Marmara-Aegean-Central Anatolia and Mediterranean-South Eastern Anatolia tours, serving 58 provinces and 102 districts in 3 regions. (AA)