
Also at SPIEF, an agreement was signed on the implementation of the investment plans of the Dairy Industry company in Bashkiria. She intends to build a livestock breeding complex for 1.2 thousand dairy cows in the Iglinsky district of the republic. The total investment will amount to 2.3 billion rubles, the complex will produce up to 9 thousand tons of raw milk per year.
In May, Urozhay Group announced plans to build a dairy farm in Bashkiria. The livestock complex for 2 thousand heads of cattle will be located in the Sterlitamak region of the republic, 1.1 billion rubles will be spent on its creation. During the implementation of the project, cowsheds, a milking and milking unit, a feedlot, a sanitary checkpoint, a maternity ward, manure storage facilities and other facilities will be built. Annually, the farm plans to produce 5.2 thousand tons of milk and sell 200 heads of young animals. The construction of the dairy farm is planned to start next year.
Bashkortostan ranks fifth in Russia in terms of milk and meat production, and the authorities of the republic are striving to increase the number of industrial dairy farms to 50 by 2030. They will produce 1 million tons of milk and occupy about 500 thousand hectares of land. State support helps farms to acquire highly productive breeding stock. In 2022, the region's farms purchased over 3.7 thousand heads of breeding dairy cattle and more than 240 heads of beef cattle for 611 million rubles.
As Ilshat Fazrakhmanov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Bashkiria, Minister of Agriculture, reported in June, 21 new dairy complexes should be launched in the region by 2024, there are now 18 industrial dairy farms, the press service of the regional government quoted him as saying.