breed reported in geographic location Saanen (Goat) Saanen, United Republic of Tanzania (Goat) https://www.fao.org/dad-is Saanen VBO:0009167 The concept of “breed reported in geographic location by FAO National Coordinators” is unique to DAD-IS (https://www.fao.org/dad-is/en/). This VBO term should therefore be used specifically for the breed conforming to this concept. Originated from the Saanen valley in Switzerland and distributed to most of the temperate parts of world, especially to European countries, USA and New Zealand. The Saanen were imported in Tanzania from UK in 1960s for pure breeding and in 1975 from USA for crossbreeding with indigenous goats to increase milk production in crossbred goats domestic breed Sabrina Toro