PIG BREEDING

PIG BREEDING, a branch of livestock breeding. In 2016, in Bashkortostan, businesses of all categories had 430.1 thous. pigs in total: agricultural businesses – 364 (84.8%), peasant (farmer) farms – 10.9 (2.5%), homesteads — 54.7 (12.7%). In the Republic, pedigree swine are bred at Roshchinsky Sovkhoz, OOO Bashkir Meat Company and Ufimsky Selection and Hybrid Centre, etc. Approx. 20 pig breeding complexes function in the RB: Bashagro Group (ZAO Baltachevsky Pig Complex, Sterlitamaksky Pig Complex, Chekmagushevsky, Chishminsky Pig Complex), OOO Bashkir Bacon (Belebeyevsky, Ilishevsky, Meleuzovsky pig complexes), etc.