Ni Komang Erviani ,  The Jakarta Post ,  Denpasar   |  Tue, 01/27/2009 1:27 PM  |  Bali

The Bali administration has reduced the number of live cattle allowed for export to 55,000 in 2009 from 75,000 last year to prevent a further decline in the population of indigenous Bali cattle.

“This reduction is to protect our declining numbers of the Bali breed of cattle,” Ida Bagus Alit, head of the Bali Animal Husbandry Agency, said Friday.

Alit said the Bali administration had been reducing the number of live cattle allowed for export in the last few years, citing Bylaw No. 2/2003 on the restriction of exporting female calves from Bali. [Read more →]