Ekaterina Zakharova: it is unwise to abandon the extensive way of development of dairy farming

Источник: The DairyNews
"The document contrasts the two ways of development of pedigree dairy farming: intensive and extensive. It is not reasonable to abandon extensive way," said Ekaterina Zakharova, senior analyst of the Dairy Research Center in the course of the discussion of the project of the program "Improving the efficiency of pedigree dairy cattle".
"The main purpose of the state is the access of population to quality dairy products. Only due to the increase of livestock we can significantly increase production of raw milk. For example, in Ireland and Switzerland there are 15-16 cows per 1 km2, in Russia there are 0,3 cows per 1 km2. In this regard, dairy farming of the Russian Federation can grow rapidly", - said the analyst.

According to the Dairy Research Centre the growth of milk production on private farms in 2015 was 6%. During the first half of 2016 the index growth on private farms was 3%, at agricultural enterprises - 2,5%

"It is important to preserve national security. Private farms should grow both in number and in efficiency," said Yevgenia Uvarkina, Chairman of Commission of Public Chamer of the Russian Federation on agriculture. In addition, Mrs. Uvarkina underlined that according to official statistics, in Russia, with cow population of 8.5 million heads about 32 million tons of milk is produced. In the United States with cow population of 9 million heads they produce 90 million tons of milk.

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