FAO Supports the Development of the Strategy of Development of the Livestock Sector in Azerbaijan

Today in Baku began to work the final seminar of local and foreign experts to develop a strategy of development of the livestock sector in Azerbaijan, in which the active part played by FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization). The government intends to implement this policy document aimed at improving food security, poverty reduction and improvement of farm incomes in the next 10 years, and is seeking to attract the necessary investment.

At the opening ceremony of the seminar, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Aslan Aslanov said that the comprehensive document covers all aspects of the development of animal husbandry, including the production of seafood, from pasture management to animal genetic diversity, and from improving health and breeding of animals to supplying their feed, development dairy farms, etc. The Strategy also provides for the use of subsidies for the development of animal husbandry.

FAO Representative in Baku Tarana Bashirova noted that experts have studied all of the positive and negative aspects of the situation of livestock production and presented the document, according to their calculations, would eliminate all the problems. It will be expected to stimulate the development of the competitive development of the livestock industry of commercial orientation, both at local and international levels.

In the preparation of the Strategy taken into account were the economic, social, cultural and environmental factors of development of the sector. - 08s-