Sleman to distribute 20,000 goats<\/p>\n
YOGYAKARTA: As part of its poverty alleviation and community
\nempowerment programs, the government of Sleman regency is
\nplanning to distribute a total 20,000 goats this year to young
\nfarmers in its villages, to be further bred for meat.<\/p>\n
\"We have started buying some 300 goats a day from outside
\nSleman,\" Regent Ibnu Subiyanto said here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Ibnu added that the same amount of goats would also be
\nprovided by the regental government through its Agricultural and
\nForestry Office annually for the next four years.<\/p>\n
In other words, a total of about 100,000 goats would be
\ndistributed over five years.<\/p>\n
\"By then we expect to have some 800,000 goats in the region,
\napproximately the same as our population total here,\" Ibnu said.<\/p>\n
Ibnu, whose term is to end this year, said that one of the
\nkeys to success in improving the regental economy was to increase
\nthe money in circulation, even at village level.<\/p>\n
The distribution of goats, he said, which were provided as a
\nform of rolling capital to young village farmers, was a way of
\nstimulating economic activity in the villages. --JP<\/p>",
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