Marat Akhmetov: We managed to preserve major indicators in livestock industry

24 January 2015, Saturday
On January 24, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov held the meeting, devoted to livestock  industry, at Tatarstan Government House. Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Agriculture and Food Marat Akhmetov reported: “There was a slight growth in livestock industry last year. I consider it as satisfactory taking into consideration the problems of agro-industrial complex in 2014. We managed to preserve major indicators in the field”. 
In 2014 in Tatarstan 481,000 tons of cattle and birds were bred (+0,2%), gross milk yield made up 1.73 million tons(+1%), while milk yield  in private subsidiary farming  was decreased by 6% and  amounted to 40,000 tons. 1.1 billion of chicken eggs were produced. 
Cattle stock with 1.03 million heads remained at the same level as it was in 2013.But the amount of cattle in private subsidiary farming was reduced by 6 %.
Proceeds of agricultural producers in cash made 71.7  billion roubles.
Marat Akhmetov said that loans will be unavailable for a lot of agricultural producers, and the sowing campaign will be carried out on money from milk production.
Tatarstan President paid attention to the necessity of increasing the profitability of milk production in some agricultural producers. “It is important to receive proceeding as well as profit”, he concluded. 


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