Bulls do not need money

Senator Sergei Lisowski, once engaged in the production of poultry meat, opposed state support beef cattle.

In the budget deficit should support dairy farming as well as poultry and pork production as the most accessible to the public types of meat , he said. With such a statement previously addressed by the President of the Meat Union M. Mamikonyan . Investors who invested in breeding beef cattle , sharply criticized the statements of Senator . USDA considers the development of cattle breeding one of the main problems in the Russian agribusiness .

Last week, Mr. Lisowski , who is deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Agricultural and Food Policy , wrote in his blog that during the reduction of the budgetary framework should focus on increasing and improving the quality of the dairy herd , and not to attempt to scale development of beef cattle . " Concerns reduction in the volume of beef production is understandable, but the most important improvement of the dairy herd and support the growth of poultry production and pork as the most affordable for the population of meats ," - said the senator .

Under the state program of agribusiness development for 2013-2020 provide support for beef cattle in the amount of 65 billion rubles .

When subsidize beef cattle supposedly reduces the cost of beef, but we must remember that its customers - enough solvent citizens , said Mr. Lisowski . The high price of beef cattle breeding allows formed in volumes of demand from affluent . Thus, consumers with limited or moderate income increased opportunities to acquire milk , poultry and pork . "We can only welcome the development of private companies beef cattle at their own expense , but not the state budget " - says the senator .

Mr. Lisowski prior political career was the founder of "Mosselprom" which is engaged in the production of poultry . In March 2011, the asset was sold to a group "Cherkizovo ».

Statement by Mr. Lisowski followed after the President of the Meat Union Moushegh Mamikonian against officials explained RBC daily representative senator .

Mr. Mamigonyan said repeatedly emphasized officials that they should not support the development of beef cattle from the federal budget . "It is impractical in terms of efficiency. For the same money we could have done much more animal protein in the more widely significant groups : egg, milk , poultry , pork, - said the expert . - The state also supports the production of meat , and so is buying off people ».

Russian company brings annually to 1 million tonnes of beef slaughter weight for the amount of 3-3.5 billion dollars , while the support of the industry is only $ 200 million a year, says CEO of the National Union beef producers Denis Circassians .

representative of " Agribusiness " that realizes the biggest project on beef cattle breeding in Russia , said that it was beef cattle in the world is the main source of meat both in price and quality .

For example, in Brazil in the production of beef carcass weight accounted for 95% of meat breeds of cattle in the U.S. - 80 % , and the rest - for dairy cattle breeds . And in Russia, 90% of the beef market generates dairy herd .

When at full capacity , " Agribusiness " will produce 100 tons of beef, the quality of which will be much better than the meat, which is now largely represented in the market. Moreover, 90 % of this volume will be affordable and only 10% goes to restaurants, said a company spokesman . Given that the payback period in beef cattle is about 11 years without government , no investor will go to projects such representative is sure " Miratorga ».

According to Mr. Cherkesov arguments at prominent politicians, first, only scare investors - managers of farms in beef cattle , and that so little because of the complex phase of investment in the industry , and secondly, are on hand those who support a reduction in funding of all agriculture .

way, USDA considers promotion of beef cattle breeding in one of the main tasks of the Russian agro-industrial complex . Over the past five years due to large-scale investment and state support in Russia managed to significantly increase the production of pork and poultry meat production and cattle - this is the next point of growth in livestock , said last week in an interview , " the Russian business newspaper " Deputy Agriculture Minister Dmitry Yuriev .