Improvement of Composition of Breeding Livestock Allocated 15 Million Manats

The head of state signed two decrees aimed at supporting the development of livestock breeding structure on August 19.

JSC Agroleasing has been allocated (http://ru.president.az/articles/16000) AZN 15 million from the President's Reserve Fund of the state budget for purchases of breeding cattle abroad and its sale to farmers at 50% of the cost.

Another decree (http://ru.president.az/articles/16001) gave subsidies to farmers in the amount of AZN 100 for livestock owners for each bull obtained by artificial insemination. The Cabinet of Ministers is to determine the procedure for issuing grants.

The Ministry of Agriculture told Turan that in the period 2009-2014 11,645 head of breeding animals were purchased abroad for state funds. However, the quality of the tribal composition of the animals is not growing rapidly: As a result of artificial insemination, the livestock only grew by 6.9 thousand head and reached 18,500 at the beginning of 2015.

Only in 2014 Agroleasing received 23.5 million manats from the state budget to improve the composition of breeding animals in Azerbaijan. Farmers and livestock farms purchased these animals from JSC Agroleasing for 50% of their purchase value. For the modernization of the Center for Artificial Insemination of the Ministry of Agriculture 1.5 million mantas was allocated in 2014.

Creation of the new livestock farms Aqat-Aqro (Agjabedi district), Karabakh Agro-industrial Complex (Barda), Turyanchay (Agdash) and Qara Inek (Agdam), as well as the animal husbandry farm of Azersun Holding in Bilasuvar was made with breeding cows purchased from abroad.

In 2014, livestock specialists produced artificial insemination of 98.6 thousand cows. Through artificial insemination 71,098 head of calves were received. --08D-