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Abstract
In the year 2004, the Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) standardized the regulations for those
farms that want to be part of exporting process of livestock products of ovine origin, these regulations are part
of the ovine’s livestock production program under official certification (PABCO ovino). The aim of this study
is to characterize small-livestock sheep producers in a dryland coastal area in the O’Higgins Region, with the
intention of characterizing their fulfilment of the quality protocol, thus establishing their capacity of being
part of the ovine meat's exporting chain. Three groups were identified. One of them could soon be part of the
exporting chain, because it presents the highest fulfilment levels related to PABCO ovino. Nevertheless, it
needs to develop an intervention program in order to reach the minimum incorporation level to PABCO
program.