More than 20 major investment projects in animal husbandry will be implemented in the Omsk Region by 2025.

The prospects for the development of the industry became the topic of discussion at the general meeting of the Agro-Industrial Union of the Omsk region.

The meeting, led by Valery Boyko, First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Omsk region, was held in Pavlogradsky district on the basis of JSC Niva.

The farm is a large, systemically important enterprise in the region. The number of cattle here is 6.5 thousand, including 2.5 thousand cows. Niva is a breeding reproducer for the breeding of cattle of the red steppe breed of dairy cattle. Thanks to advanced technologies and well-structured work, the company has high productivity indicators, increasing them every year.

An expanded meeting was held within the framework of the meeting of the Agro-Industrial Union, its topic was the development of the livestock industry in the region. As Valery Boyko, First Deputy Chairman of the regional government, noted, the further development of the livestock industry depends on the introduction of modern technologies, compliance with all the rules of feed preparation, milking and cow husbandry. Knowledge and observance of all these rules greatly facilitates the work of livestock breeders and improves the quality of products. The pace of work in this area should increase every year. A number of decisions are being taken at the regional and federal levels to support these areas.

Currently, there are 400 livestock farms of various categories in the Omsk region, the number of cattle in them is 355.9 thousand heads, pigs - 369.8 thousand heads, birds - 7.2 million heads. In the first 9 months of 2022, 476.9 thousand tons of milk, 130.2 thousand tons of meat, and 659.7 million eggs were produced.

During the period from 2016 to 2022, seven major investment projects were implemented in the dairy cattle breeding sub-sector of the Omsk region, the volume of investments exceeded 1 billion rubles. This year, two investment projects with a total investment volume of more than 600 million rubles (SEC "Pushkinsky", Stage I SEC "Lesnoy") are at the final stage of implementation. By 2025, more than 20 major investment projects in the livestock industry will be implemented in the region.

In the livestock industry, it is necessary not only to modernize production, but also to increase the competence of industry workers, said Nikolai Bustard, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Omsk Region. New livestock complexes are being built, modern approaches and technologies are beginning to be applied in them, it is very important that the specialists of each enterprise have qualifications and understand projects and technologies. Omsk State Agrarian University conducts not only training of young personnel, but also advanced training of already employed agricultural workers. This should be used by introducing science into technological processes to the maximum.

The meeting also discussed the main tasks of the industry in the near future. These include ensuring the production of competitive products of high quality, increasing labor productivity through modernization of technological equipment and premises, construction of new production facilities, balanced feeding of animals with high-quality feed, improvement of livestock and further breeding work.