Prospects of use of genetic resources of sheep in Ukraine

Iryna Suprun

doi:10.15414/afz.2021.24.01.35-43

Abstract

Prospects of use of genetic resources of sheep in Ukraine

Highlights

In the current economic environment, the sheep industry remains one of the most promising for development, from the standpoint of improving effective land use, employment, providing processing industry with raw materials and population with food
Sheep breeding in Ukraine has a long tradition, in general, the number of animals has been declining for many years in a row
The situation is critical for such breeds as the Latvian dark-headed, Ukrainian mountain Carpathian and Sokilska and the number of farms engaged in sheep breeding has critically decreased

Summary

Introduction

In the current economic environment, the sheep industry remains one of the most promising for development, from the standpoint of improving effective land use, employment, providing processing industry with raw materials and population with food (meat, milk, cheese, etc.). Sheep, due to their biological characteristics, can use pastures with a minimum cost of almost 8–9 months a year, and it is advisable to breed them in all climatic zones of Ukraine (Bojko et al, 2013; Vdovychenko et al, 2013b). Over the past twenty years, the sheep industry has undergone tremendous changes in Ukraine. This primarily concerns the number of sheep and its breed composition. Compared to 2005, breeding farms for such breeds as Charollais, Texel, Polwarth, Caucasian fine-wooled, North Caucasian, Crimean type and Azov types of Tsigai breed have disappeared. Some breeding farms remained on the territory of the annexed Crimean Peninsula. The prolific type of Karakul breed has not been bred since 2006 (Vdovychenko et al, 2016; Vdovychenko et al, 2019)

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