Opinion: Pig breeding in the Kuban will not develop rapidly

The high cost of land and the orientation of the region to the EXPORT of MEAT products had a negative impact on the development of pig breeding in the Kuban, said Oleg Sirota, chairman of the People's Farmer Association.
“When subsidies were given in many regions, in the Krasnodar Territory, agricultural producers felt good, were engaged in export, and they had a good rate of return. The land was just too expensive. For various projects - pig, poultry, cattle - need quite large areas of land. Feed needs to be harvested and sold. it has always been profitable to export from the Kuban, because the ports are nearby. Therefore, a large number of large pig-breeding complexes were not built there. It just happened historically just like that, ”Sirota believes.

According to the speaker, the increase in the number of pigs in the Kuban is not worth waiting for. In addition, the current owners of pig farms tend to save money, which leads to negative consequences.

“As for the pig industry, it is unlikely to develop much. There is a minus that there are relatively fewer enterprises, but there is a plus, because a pig-breeding complex, especially a large one, is a small environmental disaster. I think that the inhabitants of some village, if they build a complex for 10 thousand pigs, they will not be happy about this event at all, but will protest in every possible way. Many manufacturers often save on filters. There is no such horror on dairy farms,” Sirota said.

As RBC Krasnodar reported, in December 2022, African swine fever was detected at one of the enterprises in the Yeysk region. Then quarantine was introduced in the focus of the disease. In OOO Trading House Yaseni, the entire livestock was destroyed - more than 20.6 thousand pigs were kept there. The quarantine was canceled on February 3, the corresponding decree was signed by the governor Veniamin Kondratiev.