Sleman to distribute 20,000 goats

Sleman to distribute 20,000 goats

YOGYAKARTA: As part of its poverty alleviation and community
empowerment programs, the government of Sleman regency is
planning to distribute a total 20,000 goats this year to young
farmers in its villages, to be further bred for meat.

"We have started buying some 300 goats a day from outside
Sleman," Regent Ibnu Subiyanto said here on Wednesday.

Ibnu added that the same amount of goats would also be
provided by the regental government through its Agricultural and
Forestry Office annually for the next four years.

In other words, a total of about 100,000 goats would be
distributed over five years.

"By then we expect to have some 800,000 goats in the region,
approximately the same as our population total here," Ibnu said.

Ibnu, whose term is to end this year, said that one of the
keys to success in improving the regental economy was to increase
the money in circulation, even at village level.

The distribution of goats, he said, which were provided as a
form of rolling capital to young village farmers, was a way of
stimulating economic activity in the villages. --JP