In the Leningrad region will develop in beef cattle

Pastoralists Leningrad region began to develop a targeted program aimed at increasing the production of beef cattle.

Vice -Governor of the Leningrad Region , the chairman of the committee on agriculture and Fishery Sergei Yakhnyuk decided to establish a working group for the development and coordination of the project "Development of crossbred beef cattle and specialized in the Leningrad region on the basis of small enterprises , peasant farmers and private farms . "

first step towards the creation of the program was a seminar - meeting with the heads of regional governments agriculture , farmers and the relevant committee of the regional administration .

participants met with examples of beef farms , and exchanged views on ways of interaction of large, vertically integrated companies with farmers . In the framework of the meeting of breeders have identified the problem in the next decade : to increase the production of beef in more than tripled - to 80,000 tons per year.

To do this, from the Leningrad region has all conditions . According to experts in the field of animal husbandry in the region has all the prerequisites for the program to accelerate the breeding of beef cattle : unused land resources, high yields of forage crops , the possibility of not less than 6 months of the year have cattle in the open air , and, finally , as in Leningrad , so and in several other areas , established breeding base for the Aberdeen-Angus breed of cattle .

Today Vsevolozhskogo farms , Kingiseppe , Kirishsky Priozersky areas and animals Aberdeen Angus and Hereford breeds , there are just over 3,050 individuals.