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Sustainable production of high quality beef and pork in Slovenia – focus of SLO-ACE project

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Sustainable food production is one of key priorities in the national strategy of Slovenia, as it is a very small country with limited resources and agricultural land availability. Over half of its territory is covered by forests, 3/4 of agricultural land is categorized as less favorable areas with 2/3 of permanent grassland. The country is mainly hilly and despite its small size has diverse climates (Mediterranean, alpine to continental). This specific geo-agro-climatic context provides favourable conditions for cattle breeding, which is the most important agricultural segment. While dairy sector productivity has progressed in the past decades, the beef sector remains unexploited and its innovation potential needs to be increased to improve its sustainability. The sector is characterized by predominance of doublepurpose breeds with emphasis on milk production, leading to unexploited meat potential with low growth intensity (<900 g/day) and carcass conformation (over half in class R) and low fatness (60% in class 2). The key challenges are to better exploit the potentials of traditional breeds and permanent grassland, to include meat quality in the breeding programs, and to better consider consumer and societal expectations regarding meat quality, animal welfare, and environment. Pork is the primary meat consumed in Slovenia (40 kg/capita). However, self-sufficiency has dropped from 80 to 35% in the last 20 years, leading to high importations for consumption and domestic transformation. Current challenge is to increase domestic pig production and transformation of added-value pork products. Recently approved H2020 coordination and support action project SLO-ACE will pursue these challenges and endeavour to improve the structural organization, human resources and knowledge transfer capacity needed for high impact research devoted to sustainable high quality beef and pork production in Slovenia. On this area of research, SLO-ACE will be supported and mentored by the French institute INRA. SLO-ACE is financed through H2020 program (grant agreement no.763655).
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hal-01872287 , version 1 (02-06-2020)

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Vladimir Meglič, Bénédicte Lebret, Jean-François J.-F. Hocquette. Sustainable production of high quality beef and pork in Slovenia – focus of SLO-ACE project. 69. Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), Aug 2018, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production, 24, 2018, Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production. ⟨hal-01872287⟩
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