The publication about the press conference which have taken place on September 14, 2007 on questions of revival and sheep breeding development in the Crimea.
On September 14, 2007 on the basis of the Crimean ethnographic museum press conference on which questions of revival and development of sheep breeding were considered took place there is no time one of profitable branches of agricultural industry of the Crimea.
V. Ananyev, the chairman of Gissar cooperative A.Pokolodin, the manager of the Crimean ethnographic museum took part in this meeting Y.Laptev, the executive director of Association of reserves and museums of the Crimea S. Pushkarev, the manager metodkabinety the Crimean state agrarian educational advice center, representatives of ethnic communities of the Crimea, the master of national and arts and crafts creativity, representatives of mass media the chairman of the board of Association of sheep breeders and kozovodov Ukraine.
With an opening speech to participants of conference the chairman of the board of Association of sheep breeders and kozovodov Ukraine Vladimir Ananyev whom, having emphasized special importance and an urgency of revival of sheep breeding addressed, gave some statistics. In 1989 the livestock of sheep in the Crimea made 1 150 million thousands, for January 1, 2007 – only 250 thousand, from them 210 thousand are at the population and only 40 thousand at agricultural enterprises.
Thus to producers, whether it be a private trader or the enterprise to which managed to keep a livestock, it is necessary to solve more many various problems. It and search of sales markets of production, high service prices strigaly and, certainly, shortage of qualified personnel.
The possible solution of these problems was offered by Vladimir Ananyev. In his opinion, the accession of producers to the Gissar cooperative organized by Association of sheep breeders and kozovodov of Ukraine, will help them to optimize the production. Now the behavior of sheep breeders in the market is similar to Brownian motion: the majority of them tries to decide to correlate so as though the price of sale of meat/wool and own expenses as a result to get profit, instead of a loss.
- Having entered Gissar cooperative – Vladimir Ananyev speaks – producers can count on the guaranteed outlets across all Crimea and free training.
- As to shots, the Association of sheep breeders concluded the agreement with the Crimean state agrarian educational advice center about cooperation in the field of training of shots for sheep breeding branch. After all there are no such professions as shepherds and strigali.
Differently, the cooperative for the purpose of maximizing profit of his participants should become peculiar "bridge" between producers and pererabotchik of sheep-breeding production, associations strigaly and suppliers of forages, and also masters of arts and crafts products from skin and hair of sheep.
Need of involvement of master tanners emphasized in the performance and Sergey Pushkarev, the executive director of Association of reserves and museums of the Crimea.
- It is necessary to organize so cooperative work that antiquated ways of a dressing and wool for which our Crimea was famous weren’t forgotten – he told.
Especially now, when all world production of clothes and footwear passes to synthetic materials. Many forget that the material most non-polluting and useful to health was and there is a sheepskin.
For the purpose of sheep breeding promoting in October in the Crimea will pass the All Ukraine festival Taurian fleeces. The program of action is developed by Association of sheep breeders and kozovodov Ukraine together with autonomy Council of ministers. Novozhilovk’s village of the Belogorsky area will be a venue, according to preliminary data. In the festival program – equipment demonstration for a hairstyle, milkings, feedings to a sheep, field competitions.
Thus, potential and prospect of development of branch of sheep breeding the huge. With active state subsidized support and successful work of Gissar cooperative begins possible to start to revive sheep breeding and soon to return at least not to a million livestock of sheep, but semi-million it is exact.
E.GORYUNOVA,
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