President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with businesses in Rivne region on Thursday instructed the government to develop a program to compensate for the construction of dairy farms, according to the President’s website.
“During the meeting they discussed regulation of the timber market, efficient use of land and development of dairy farming. The President instructed officials to elaborate and solve these issues, as well as to develop a program of compensation for the construction of dairy farms,” – noted on the website of the Office of the President.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on February 3 approved the concept of the state targeted economic program for the development of livestock farming for the period up to 2033. According to the concept, the state targeted economic program of livestock development should meet the needs of the domestic market in safe and quality food products of animal origin; create progressive forms of entrepreneurial activity and organizational and economic conditions for the motivated development of the livestock industry.
It will, in particular, promote the development of farming, which will ensure further integration into the infrastructure of the agrarian market (increasing the share of livestock products production from farms in the category of enterprises up to 10%). In addition, the program will stimulate the development of capacities for processing of livestock products by increasing the volume of dairy raw materials for industrial processing up to 6 million tons.
It is expected that the set of measures proposed by the government will contribute to the stabilization and increase in the number of farm animals, in particular, by providing the livestock industry with pedigree (genetic) resources of Ukrainian origin: cattle – up to 50%, pigs – up to 50%, horses – up to 70%, sheep – up to 80%, goats – up to 50%, poultry – up to 50%, bees – up to 100%).
The concept of the state program is aimed at ensuring stable veterinary and sanitary condition, biological, infectious and invasive safety of livestock facilities and prevention of negative environmental consequences of production activities of livestock enterprises for handling animal by-products not intended for human consumption.
It also provides for the promotion of exports of livestock food products and the opening of new markets.
The concept envisages support for small and medium-sized producers, stimulating the consolidation and development on cooperative basis of farms and personal peasant farms, which can be the main ones for handicraft processing activities and organic production of products using direct channels of product sales.
