OBJECTIVES

FEAGAS – FEDERACIÓN FEAGAS – REAL SPANISH FEDERATION OF SELECT LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATIONS

ASTURGEN (ASEAVA’s commercialising company) provides its experience and knowledge in the commercialisation of semen and embryos and in the export agents it currently uses: tools to launch its product, trained personnel for opening new markets, internationalisation procedures, logistics… as well as its participation in research projects and promotion of its products in Spain and abroad. In addition, directly thanks to ASTURGEN, it associates 4147 members and more than 63,000 breeding females distributed throughout all the Autonomous Communities.

In the project, ASTURGEN will bring its experience in exporting meat from the 100% native breed with the Ministry’s logo to Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Portugal. It will also contribute its experience in participating in international fairs to sell genetic material and the knowledge trips it has made in previous years to learn about production systems in Germany, Denmark, France, Portugal, and Italy, with the collaboration of MAPA and the Framework Programme of the Interprofessional Organisations. Although it currently has experience in export because it distributes genetic material to Poland, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, and Uruguay on a constant basis due to the increasing demand for the breed because of its skills, this export is limited by the existing technological requirements that this project and operational group wants to address.

In 1970, the MAPA created the Stud Book for the Avileña breed of cattle, but ten years later, in 1980, the General Directorate of Agricultural Production decided to modify the denomination and update its specific regulations, creating the Stud Book and Yield Verification of the Avileña-Negra Ibérica breed, previously known as Avileña.
At its time, it was produced as a response to try to frame in larger genetic units the different groups of cattle that corresponded to a common ethnic trunk. The Avileña breed was catalogued by the MAPA in 1979 as an autochthonous breed for promotion, remaining in the same category in the current Official Catalogue, although with the official name of the breed, Avileña-Negra Ibérica.
The association participates in the following activities:

– Genetic improvement programme
– Establishment of structures and services
– Promotion of the breed
– Participation in organisations
– Collaboration with public administrations

ANCCE shows its leading role in the sector by integrating almost 250,000 animals belonging to more than 35,000 breeders in more than 65 countries and 41 delegated associations in countries such as the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Holland, Czech Republic, Sweden. It will contribute with its experience and knowledge in exporting the breed worldwide: its promotion and export plans (20-30 trips abroad per year), organisation of the International Horse Show (SICAB), which has now been held for 26 editions, and the preparation of annual promotion plans with the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX) and EXTENDA. Its involvement on an international level is demonstrated by the fact that it is the representative of the Purebred Spanish Horse at COPA-COGECA (EU breeders’ association) and the WBFSH (World Breeders’ Federation of Sport Horses). Thanks to the work carried out for 15 years by the PRE Breeding Programme, in 2018, 146,833 genetic assessments of morphological aptitude and 13,509 of Dressage were published on the LG website. In addition, the lists of the 100 best animals (males and females) for their genetic index for both Classic Dressage and morphological aptitude have recently been published. This data justifies all the knowledge, experience, and capacity that ANCCE can provide to the project, but also the entity’s need of this management platform, which would allow it to increase its international presence and promote the breed in countries that, due to certain technical or technological barriers, are very limited, such as China.

Also called UEGHá, is the Association of breeders of purebred Hispano-Arabian horses, established in the year 2000. This professional association of businessmen will have as its objective the representation and defence of the economic and professional interests referred to the common and individual interests of its members, as breeders of horses of the Hispano-Arabian breed.

UEGHA’s aims are, but are not limited to, the following:

a) To gather all the breeders of Hispano-Arabian horses, instilling the associative feelings of all kinds, aiming at the common good.
b) To represent and defend the interests of its members as breeders.
c) To watch over the purity and selection of the Hispano-Arabian breed, its conservation and improvement.
d) To encourage the commercialisation of the Hispano-Arabian breed horses, promoting the opening of markets.
e) The Management of the Stud Book of the Hispano-Arabian Breed, by assignment of the Ministry of Agriculture.
f) To promote the training of all activities related to the equine sector.
g) To promote and expand the association’s relations with riding schools and with any other institution that directly or indirectly promotes the dissemination of the Spanish-Arabian breed.
h) To organise competitions and trials to promote the Hispano-Arabian breed.

ASSAF.E is the National Association of Assaf Sheep Breeders. Created in April 2002, it manages the Genetic Improvement Programme of the breed, carrying out a constant improvement in the herds belonging to the association.

After the official recognition of the Assaf in 2003 as a breed from third countries adapted in Spain, in 2005 the Regulations of the Stud Book of the Assaf breed were approved. In the same year, ASSAF.E was officially recognised as a collaborating entity for the maintenance of the Stud Book.

Its objectives are:

– To watch over the purity of the breed, being responsible for the stud book.
– To manage the Genetic Selection and Improvement programme, which translates into a process of continuous progress in the herds belonging to the association.
– To promote the dissemination and expansion of the breed throughout the national and international territory. To this purpose, it is present at the most important events held in the livestock sector.

ACRIFLOR, the National Association of Florida Breed Goat Breeders, was set up in 1996 in Villaverde del Río thanks to the initiative of Manuel Sánchez Rodríguez, together with Clemente Mata Moreno as representative of the herd of the University of Córdoba and a group of breeders from the region.

Thanks to years of work and commitment in the early 1980s, people like Manuel Rodríguez Díaz, farmer and mayor of Villaverde del Río, who, together with the support of Felipe García Chaparro, then Provincial Councillor for Agriculture, and the veterinarian José Antonio Sánchez Romero, started the journey to recover a goat population that was being lost. With their work of description, homogenisation, and selection, they laid the foundations of what is today the Florida breed.

In 1985, they worked with an experimental herd of 500 breeding cows and with totally innovative techniques in the breed, such as genealogical work, milk control, morphological evaluation and qualification, and tests of male offspring by controlled mating by batches. This excellent and valuable work is continued by Mr. José Antonio Sánchez Romero and his family, due to the withdrawal of the project by the Provincial Council of Seville.

National Association of Breeders of the Murcian-Granadine Goat. Established in 1979, it has a national scope and is legally recognised for the management of the Stud Book of the Murcian-Granadine breed, according to the resolution of the General Directorate of Livestock Productions and Markets of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of 29 December 1992. It oversees managing the Stud Book of the breed and the Conservation and Genetic Improvement Programme.