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TURKEY’S FIRST
EBRD SAYS IT HAS SPERM BANK

INVESTED 9.4 BILLION FOR GOATS

EUROS IN 2016, FOUNDED

WITH TURKEY

AMONG TOP

RECIPIENTS

TURKEY’S FIRST SPERM BANK FOR
GOATS HAS BEEN FOUNDED IN
THE CAPITAL ANKARA IN ORDER
TO PROTECT THE SPECIES OF THE
ANKARA GOAT.

The project, which is carried out by been on the rise in North Africa, the
Ankara University, received support U.S., Canada, New Zealand, France
from the Scientific and Technological and Russia, according to Daşkın.
Research Council of Turkey
(TUBİTAK) worth 240,000 Turkish “With the computer software
Liras. developed as a part of the project,
we’ve reached sperms with highest
Elite flocks will be founded with level of gene quality via embryo
artificial insemination in the transfers, collective insemination,
Ankara Goat Sperm Bank, founded and methods like embryo creation
through the cooperation of Ankara in laboratories. In the sperm bank
University’s Faculty of Veterinary the prevention of diseases can be
Science lecturer Prof. Ali Daşkın, possible,” Daşkın told daily Hürriyet,
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche adding that the farmers could apply
(CNR), and TÜBİTAK. to the goat sperm bank.

The number of high-technology “Farmers can apply to the goat sperm
LONDON/ISTANBUL
Ankara goats - which has a high bank at Ankara University if they want
value in the world, especially in to inoculate high quality goat sperm
the textile industry - has been on into their goats.
a steady decline in Ankara and the
surrounding provinces and is now In this way, the Ankara goats started
THE EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTİON near extinction. to provide 3.5 kilograms of wool
AND DEVELOPMENT (EBRD) STATED ON JAN. 13 rather than just a kilogram as before,”
THAT İT İNVESTED A TOTAL 9.4 BİLLİON EUROS While the number of such Ankara he added.
ACROSS 378 PROJECTS İN 2016, MATCHİNG goats is decreasing in Turkey, it has
İTS RECORD AMOUNT SET İN 2015.

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The top countries of EBRD transition countries to 114 in 2016
investment included Turkey, from 102 a year earlier, it added.
Kazakhstan, Egypt, Poland and
Bulgaria, while spending in Ukraine In Turkey, the bank said it focuses BE PART OF THE
dropped sharply. on investing in energy efficiency and TURKISH PAVILION
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