Australia is the largest country with million km2, larger than Vietnam (320,000 km2), and only 5% total land area is 600 mm of rainfall is similar to some areas (600-700 mm) in Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and Lam Dong, where goats CARD project launched. Mt Glorious is a beautiful mountainous area near national forest park, and we go through full of tropical forests and large eucalyptus trees and plants that we have rich in Vietnam. Life is peaceful and Brisbane Brisbane people showed us great hospitality and kindheartedness | Report on Study tour of Vietnamese CARD participants 1. Tour organizer Dr. Barry Norton School of Animal Studies The University of Queensland UQ director of CARD Goat Project 2. Vietnamese participants 1 Dinh Van Binh Director of GRRC Son Tay Ha Tay 2 Nguyen Thi Mui Senior Consultant on Forage and Pasture Systems 3 Truong Khac Tri Director of Breeding Centre DARD Ninh Thuan 4 Nguyen Ngoc Hung Vice Director of DARD Binh Thuan 5 Nguyen Duc Hung Head of veterinary Department Lam Dong 3. Brief view of lessons learnt from study tour in a period from 3-13th May 2008 . General information Australia is large country with 7 6 million km2 much bigger than Vietnam 320000 km2 and has only 5 of total land having 600 mm of rainfall that is similar with some areas 600-700 mm in Ninh Thuan Binh Thuan and Lam Dong where CARD goat project launched. Mt Glorious is beautiful mountainous area near the National Forestry Park and we walked through this forest filled with tropical forest and many large Eucalyptus trees as well as plants that we also have abundant in Vietnam. The Brisbane living is peaceful and the Brisbane people showed us great hospitality and kind-heartedness. We visited the Botanic gardens spent some hours travelling on the Brisbane River crossing the Friendship Bridge and Brisbane City Beach and Queensland University we understand as a group that why Australia is a prosperous country On the tour of the Gatton Valley we visited Wivenhoe Dam which the main water to supply for whole Brisbane at present time and there is a serious water shortage everywhere in the city and countryside and are proving most difficult for Brisbane people and for agro-production of the areas visited. The livestock production system in Australia has cattle pigs chickens goats and sheep. Total goat population is 5 million head in which 4 million goats is native goats in Australia and about 6000 dairy goats. Australia is the world s leading goat meat exporter with the majority of the product .
