As part of the import substitution, the Ministry of Agriculture set the task: to create breed of hens-boilers of domestic selection. It will be spent 5.1 billion rubles from the budget, and about 3 billion more are promised highlight investors – Russian chicken producers.
In the Russian market, chicken is the most demanded meat, every year it sells about 35 kilograms per inhabitant countries. But domestic manufacturers are in a tough depending on imported breeding material – daily chickens and hatching eggs that are sourced from abroad.
Breeding is not a quick process, and farmers plan to breeding at least one domestic broiler, stable and competitive, it can take at least six years.