The Taiwan Livestock Research Institute (TLRI; ) is a research center in
Xinhua District,
Tainan
Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" for its over 200 years of his ...
,
Taiwan
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. It conducts research on animal breeding, physiology, nutrition and feeding techniques, animal waste treatment and utilization of byproducts, animal product processing, and forage crops. The institute has
cloned
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pigs, goats, and cows.
History
The TLRI was established as a horse-breeding farm in 1940 by the
Japanese government
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. Between 1945 and 1952, it was a horse farm under the supervision of
Taiwan Provincial Government. In 1952, it was named to Hsinhua Livestock Research Branch Institute. In 1958, it was reorganized as Taiwan Livestock Research Institute under the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry. It is now a unit of the central government's
Council of Agriculture
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since 1999.
Organizational structures
* Animal Industry Division
* Animal Products Processing Division
* Breeding and Genetics Division
* Forage Crops Division
* Livestock Management Division
* Nutrition Division
* Physiology Division
* Technical Service Division
[http://english.tlri.gov.tw/page.aspx?path=166]
References
1940 establishments in Taiwan
Agricultural research institutes in Taiwan
Animal breeding organizations
Livestock
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