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Bubalinocultura no Brasil - Short comunication

2011; Editora MV Valero; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22256/pubvet.v5n2.1003

1982-1263

Juliana Nobre Vieira, Cláudia Salviano Teixeira, Marcelo Yukio Kuabara, D.A.A. Oliveira,

T-cell and Retrovirus Studies

Agribusiness buffalois characterized by the creation of Asian domestic buffalo are highly adapted for inclusion in agribusiness supply chain of meat and milk. These animals have great adapted to Brazil and a promising ability in production. The effective buffaloes 2007.12.31 (IBGE) was 1.131.986 head, the biggest number of these species is located in the North Country (704.424 head, 62.3%), followed by the South (127.966, 11.3%), Northeast (119.978, 10.6%), Southeast (110.769, 9.8%) and Center-West (68.849, 6%). These data demonstrate that buffalo creation is an important economic activity in Brazil and their products are increasingly marketed. Thus, it is necessary to adapt the production system, for example, genetic identification, breeding, registration of genetic diseases and study of diseases pathological studies, selection for fertility and control quality of meat, milk and derivatives. Determining an appropriate register of the national breed, a time that Brazil has the largest breed of the species of the West.