Development of livestock discussed in Kazakhstan

AKIPRESS.COM - Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin chaired a meeting on the development of beef cattle breeding held at the Ministry of Agriculture, the press service of the PM said.
Minister of Agriculture Saparkhan Omarov reported on measures taken to increase the number of cattle and beef production.
In the framework of the State Agro-Industrial Complex Development Program for 2017-2021, a sectoral program for the development of livestock farming is being implemented.
There are a little more than 7.1 million heads of cattle, including cattle of milk productivity - 4.7 million heads and meat productivity - 2.3 million heads in Kazakhstan. The annual increase in domestic stock is 5%.
A particular attention was paid to feed production, whose share in the structure of the cost of livestock production is 70%.
The meeting participants discussed measures to increase the number of livestock, its productivity, ensure the loading of feedlots, as well as the involvement of farms engaged in crop production in the livestock sector.
Mamin instructed the relevant state bodies, as well as the regional administrations, together with representatives of the agricultural business to elaborate in detail and comprehensively the optimal mechanisms for implementing the task of developing meat farming in Kazakhstan.
Governors of the regions were instructed to take systematic measures to diversify agriculture by involving large grain-sowing farms and pasture owners in the livestock sector.