Russia will create a unified electronic database of pedigree cattle

As stated in the bill, a single electronic database will contain information about breeding animals, herds and farms, as well as issued permits for the import of such products.

The document was submitted to the State Duma by the government. “A limiting factor in the development of the domestic base of breeding livestock at present is the lack of a single database of breeding animals,” the explanatory note to the project says. it is noted that now information about breeding animals comes to the Ministry of Agriculture from Russian entities only once a year.

As follows from the bill, information about breeding animals bred in dairy and beef cattle breeding, sheep breeding, pig breeding, goat breeding, horse breeding, deer breeding, fur farming, rabbit breeding and camel breeding will be entered into the federal database.

The regulation on the federal system of tribal resources, including the procedure for its formation and the list of information contained, will be approved by the government . The Cabinet of Ministers will also approve the procedure and terms for the state registration of breeding animals.

Breeding farms will provide information to the federal system voluntarily, the document says. At the same time , the bill establishes mandatory requirements for the state registration of breeding animals and breeding herds, which are associated with doing business, the explanatory note to the project notes.