Government wants to stabilize livestock by the end of 2011
Ministry of Agrarian Policy (MAP) wants to stabilize livestock and overall milk production by the end of 2011. Next year (2012) will be devoted to dairy industry; government is going to increase the number of livestock.
According to State Statistic Service, on August 1, the number of cattle was 5227.5 thousand head, 2658.5 of them were cows. In comparison with the same period last year, the number of cattle is 3.5% less.