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AGRICULTURE
- FARMING
In the community of Avdimou from
the very old years, the residents, Greekcypriots and Turkishcypriots,
dealt with the agriculture and the livestock
farming. Although the landscape of Avdimou is chalky
with soft elations of ground, nevertheless they are cultivated
the vines (mainly table varieties), cereals, shepherd plants,
legumes, vegetables, few citrus fruits and carobs.
The livestock farming appears to be relatively developed in
the community of Avdimou. From 1979 there were raised 929 sheeps
and 787 goats, in 1982 was increased also the stockfarming of
cows to 138. In 1983 existed also a pig-breeder in the village.
From statistics that took place before 1974, in the village
existed too much stockfarming of sheeps, of the order of 1,111
sheeps and 367 goats.
Before the Turkish invasion the number of sheeps that were raised
in the village was considered the 6th bigger in the entire province
of Limassol. Although the Greekcypriots that returned in the
village after the Turkish invasion were half the number of those
lived there in 1973, in the sector of livestock-farming, they
imported for the first time the cows and pigs breeding, they
increased in double the sheeps and they imported in the village
rabbits and pigeons and they increased much more the stockfarming
of chicken. Because of the very good stockfarming of cows and
sheeps, exists also a satisfactory production of milk, for their
traditional milk products for which the residents of Avdimou
are famous. The traditional products of Avdimou are the halloumi,
anari and also the yogurt that make the residents of the village
very famous.
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