Currently, the stockbreeding production systems have been becoming more sustainable and efficient, making Brazil the world's largest meat producer, grounded in undeniable quality. The country has the world's most diversified stockbreeding system, which is able to compete in international markets with distinguished products, especially buffalo originated ones (for instance their low cholesterol meat), guaranteeing these products a privileged position in demanding markets. Raising buffaloes, today, is becoming a semi-extensive exploration system, in which the animals have improved genetic baggage. In the case of the Northern and Northeastern regions, buffalo farms are based in meat and also in milk production, the later having been generating excellent results, especially in the production of milk byproducts, a situation which has become an improvement alternate of the agriculture and stockbreeding sector. However, this market is highly concentrated in the genetic improvement of these animals, a fact which is responsible for such a great performance of the sector.

This project comes to tend to a demand of the productive sector which is the lack of superior buffalo breeding matrices, and thus, it aims also to insert animal production in the process of restraining the advancement of grassland frontiers , with the direct participation of the breeders and their associations in research initiatives, avoiding the expansion into areas destined to the stockbreeding sector by using more productive animals.

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