STATE AND TRENDS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETITIVE SHEEP BREEDING IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article analyzes and summarizes data of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine for 2019 and on October 1st, 2020, information from the FAO and literature sources on sheep breeding development. The research results show that lamb and goat production increased by 33.3% at agricultural enterprises in 2019. Whole meat production decreased by 2.79% during the study period in farms of all categories. The regions that obtain the most significant wool quantity are Odesa (637 tons), Zakarpattia (159 tons), and Mykolayiv (99 tons). Wool production decreased significantly in Vinnytsia and Kirovohrad (by 50%), Kyiv (by 28.6%), and Kherson (by 25.3%) regions. In January-September 2020, entire wool production decreased by 12.5% in farms of all ownership forms compared to the previous year. In 2019 wool clip per sheep decreased by 3.7% and was in the range of 0.2-3.9 kg (average 2.6 kg). According to this indicator, the first place in Ukraine takes the Kherson region (3.9 kg), the second – Nikolaev (3.7 kg), and the third – Odesa (3.4 kg). In 2018, Ukrainian enterprises produced 18,1 thousand tonnes of sheep's milk (according to FAO data), which exceeds the previous year by 6,63%. The decrease in lamb and wool production is due to a decrease in sheep stock's total number in farms of all ownership forms. In 2019 the number decreased by 5.68%, including – 7.94% in agricultural enterprises and 4.94% – in households (the difference with data on January 1st, 2020. and 2019). Ukraine established separate high-tech modular-type farms in the meat-wool (Lviv region) and meat (Dnipropetrovsk region) areas of productivity, also farms for the production and in-depth processing of sheep's milk into soft and hard delicatessen cheeses and butter (Khmelnitsky, Chernivtsi and Kyiv regions).