Baku, Azerbaijan, June 27
By Ilkin Shafiyev - Trend:
In the near future, a milk processing plant will appear in the Yalama Agricultural Park in the Khachmaz region of Azerbaijan, Yalama Agropark LLC told Trend.
Thereby, the agricultural park intends to contribute to meeting the growing demand in the country for dairy products, in particular, butter.
The agropark stated that in total the daily production capacity of the livestock of the agropark is 17 tons. In 2017, 4.6 million liters of milk and 311 tons of meat were produced and sold there.
The Agropark said 1,113 cows of Simmental breed were brought from Austria and Germany for the breeding complex.
"As a result of the first breeding, the number of animals increased to 2,400. The second breeding has already begun. Also this year, we have started to receive offspring from 250 breeding calves, which will allow us to stop the import of animals from abroad in the future. In addition to the actual increase in the number of animals, we are also working towards improving various quality indicators. In our enterprise, the mortality rate among calves does not exceed 3 percent, and among cows – 2 percent, which is considered an excellent indicator on a global scale. The average milk yield per cow in our enterprise amounts to 23-24 liters."
At present, work is underway in 30 districts of Azerbaijan to create 45 agroparks with a total value of 1.4 billion manats on the territory of 191,800 hectares.
To date, investments of 311.8 million manats have been invested in the creation of agricultural parks through state support, including 204.2 million manats invested in implementation of measures related to the laying of water, gas, and electric communications and roads, measures for land reclamation and other work, and the creation of infrastructure. State preferential loans worth up to 110 million manats have been allocated for the creation of 15 agroparks with a total value of more than 400 million manats, and investment promotion documents have been issued for 24 projects worth 565.5 million manats in 14 agroparks.
The work within the first phase has already been completed in agroparks created in Khachmaz, Shamkir, Jalilabad and Goranboy districts.
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