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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookImproving Milk Supply in Northern Ukraine
Technical assistance to Ukraine's dairy sector
2013Also available in:
No results found.Cow milk constitutes 98 percent of all milk produced in Ukraine with the remaining 2 percent of milk coming from goats and sheep. Milk production has experienced a decline since the country’s independence in 1991 and this agricultural sub-sector is one of the few where this trend has not abated. In spite of this, Ukraine remains an overall net exporter of dairy products. During the early transition period of 1990-2000, rural households1 increasingly resorted to subsistence farming and food self-sufficiency and added to the number of cows they held. In 2000, however, the number of cows per rural household started to decrease. In 2009, milk production of commercial farms increased for the first time since the 1990s, but continued to decline at household farms. Despite this shift in milk production trends by different farm types, rural households still account for about 80 percent of all milk produced. As opposed to dairy cattle inventories, the productivity of dairy c ows in Ukraine has been increasing since the mid-1990s, reflecting the sector’s improvements in feed conversion and more rational use of farm resources as compared with Soviet times. In 2002-2003, milk yields exceeded levels achieved in the late 1980s during the time of Soviet Ukraine. Average cow milk productivity increased by an impressive 48 percent (nearly 10 percent per year) from 2000 to 2005. Commercial dairy farms increased productivity by 86 percent (17 percent per year) and r ural household farms by 23 percent (5 percent per year) during the same period. In 2010, average milk yield per cow for all types of farms was about 4 000 kg/year in Ukraine, or slightly above milk yields in the Russian Federation (3 800 kg) but below these in Poland (4 800 kg), Belarus (4 600 kg) and Western Europe (6 700 kg) according to FAOSTAT data in 2010. However, taking into consideration the favourable climate and availability of both arable land and pastures in Ukraine, there is still significant room for cow productivity growth in Ukraine. -
DocumentTechnical reportThe Russian Federation: review of the dairy sector
FAO Investment Centre. Country Highlights (FAO), no. 2
2010Also available in:
In recent years, positive trends have been noted in the dairy sector in the Russian Federation. The national average milk production rose 60 percent, from 2.2 tonnes in 1997 to 3.5 tonnes in 2007. Regions of intensive production have emerged in the Northwest and Central federal okrugs, which are near centres of industrial milk processing around Moscow and St. Petersburg. These regions are characterized not only by high yields per cow but also by increasing production volumes. There has also been significant progress in smoothing out the seasonality of milk production, which has been completely overcome in some regions, in particular in the Leningrad Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Krasnodar Krai and in the Republic of Tatarstan. Both private and public investments in the sector have increased, enabling the creation of large dairy farms with modern technology. Against a background of increasing consumer demand, the milk processing industry has developed rapidly. The increase in the per capita co nsumption of dairy products, although still laging behind consumption levels in European countries, is an indicator of the high potential of the domestic dairy market.
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MeetingMeeting documentAfrican Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100). FO:AFWC/2022/5
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 22-26 August 2022
2022Also available in:
This AFWC Secretariat document provides an updated overview of progress in the implementation of the UN Decades on Ecosystem Restoration and FAO’s support towards the AFR100 Initiative since the 22nd Session held in South Africa in March 2020. -
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Book (stand-alone)GuidelineGuidelines resistance management and integrated parasite control in ruminants 2004
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No results found.Population growth, rapidly increasing urbanization and growth in income in developing countries are creating a tremendous increase in the demand for food of animal origin. This livestock revolution is demand-driven, illustrated by the fact that meat consumption in developing countries grew approximately three times more than it did in the developed world during the period from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s. During the same period the production of animal food products also grew most dramatically in the countries with the increased demand. In fact the meat production in developing countries, with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, grew at more than five times the rate in the developed countries. The projections of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) using IMPACT (International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Consumption) are that the consumption of meat and milk in developing countries will grow by about 3 percent per year between now (2003) and 2020 (Delgado et al., 1999). It is likely that this will improve the livelihood of small and medium scale market oriented farmers but only if an enabling environment is created including access to credit, development of infrastructure and animal production and health services. Farmers need access to information regarding disease control and livestock management supporting their ability to decide where to invest their resources to increase production and productivity.