Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia

The Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, or roughly "national association of pastoralists", is the Italian national body responsible for the administration of sheep- and goat-breeding. It maintains the herd books for more than a hundred indigenous breeds of sheep and goats. It records breed numbers and submits them twice yearly to DAD-IS, and keeps records for all breeders of sheep and goats in the country.^[1]

Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia

Type	national association
Purpose	administration of breeds of sheep and goat
Headquarters	1587 Viale Palmiro Togliatti, 00155 Roma
Region served	Italy
Official language	Italian
President	Marco Antonio Scalas
Affiliations	Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali
Website	assonapa.it

Breeds

The association maintains genealogical herdbooks for seventeen principal breeds of sheep, of which eight – the Altamurana, Comisana, Delle Langhe, Leccese, Massese, Pinzirita, Sarda and Valle del Belice – are milk breeds. Nine – the Appenninica, Barbaresca, Bergamasca, Biellese, Fabrianese, Gentile di Puglia, Laticauda, Merinizzata Italiana and Sopravissana — are meat breeds.^[1] It also maintains genealogical herd books for the eight principal goat breeds, the Camosciata delle Alpi or Chamois Coloured Goat, the Garganica, Girgentana, Jonica, Maltese, Orobica, Rossa Mediterranea, Saanen and Sarda. A less stringent herd book is kept for forty-six indigenous sheep breeds and forty-three goat breeds of limited distribution.^[2][a]

Note

1. For reasons that are not clear, the Valgerola breed of goat, which is considered to be the same as the Orobica, is separately reported to DAD-IS^[3][4] and is included in the list of goat breeds of limited distribution; if it is excluded, the total number of such breeds is forty-two rather than forty-three.