How a city dweller became a farmer and created a breeding herd

100 breeding cows of the Holstein-Friesian breed are kept at the dairy farm of the peasant farm "Mullagaliyev A.R." Pestrechinsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan

“This is my breeding core, on which my further work will be built to increase the number of cows and increase their productivity,” says the HEAD of the KFH Adel Mullagaliev.

When you talk to him, you think: this is a livestock breeder by vocation. And also an agronomist, economist, builder. But this is a purely urban man, whose parents were not engaged in agriculture. Yes, and he himself ended up in this industry, one might say, by accident: first he bought a house in the village of Alvidino, then, in excitement, he created a farm with ostriches and camels to show tourists. And then I was drawn to dairy business ...

And after all, how energetically this city dweller took up a new business for himself! When in 2016, under the Family Farm program, instead of 4 million rubles, according to the business plan, he was allocated 1.5 million rubles for the construction of a cowshed for 50 heads, he was not afraid to take a commercial loan in the amount of 5 million rubles from Sberbank and went to Hungary, where with this money he bought 33 Holstein heifers with a productivity potential of 8-10 thousand kilograms of MILK per year.

He brought it, but there was no barn - there were only adapted premises. Only closer to winter did they manage to put the cowshed into operation. And not by 50, but immediately by 100 goals. Soon these 33 heifers calved and brought 31 heifers and 2 bulls.

- Half of the breeding animals brought from Hungary still give milk , bring a full-fledged offspring, - Adel Rafailevich says proudly.

This suburban economy has a lot of problems: there is not enough equipment, there are not enough premises, it is difficult with personnel. But at the same time, animal husbandry is carried out here at a high scientific level: insemination is carried out artificially by a specialized company on the basis of an outsourcing agreement, livestock are chipped, their own veterinarian works, and animals are fed according to a balanced diet with the addition of purchased corn FLOUR and cake to their own feed. The calves receive the prescribed pre-starter and starter feeds, the average daily weight gain is up to a kilogram.

Adel Mullagaliev did not rest on this: having received 25 million rubles of a preferential 5% loan from Sberbank, he built a dairy plant in Pestretsy with a capacity of 10 thousand tons of milk processing per day and began to produce cheeses and other dairy products, and also bought four hundreds of heads of cattle, including about 300 cows.

 - My plan is to build a farm for 400 cows, the farmer says. - Purchased animals - the basis for the rapid reproduction of livestock.