Governmental Decree No. 160 validating Integrated Program of Livestock Sector Development in the Republic of Tajikistan for the period of 2018-2022.

Integrated Program of Livestock Sector Development in the Republic of Tajikistan for the period of 2018-2022 is a cross-sectoral policy document envisaging the development of the livestock sector, which covers a range of zootechnical, biotechnological and economic measures aimed at growing, preserving and increasing the number of cattle, poultry, bees, fish, and their breeds in the country, as well as the breeding of new high-yielding breeds. At the same time, ensuring the development of livestock breeding industries within the framework of measures aimed at organizing and conducting selection and breeding works, improving growing technology and feeding standards for livestock, poultry, fish and bees, and increasing productivity of pastures by indigenous and surface methods with the use of modern achievements. For further development of the livestock sector, it is very important to provide a stable fodder supply and it is expedient to create enterprises for the production of mixed fodder. To implement this Program, the implementation of breeding stock and technological measures have the importance of protecting, preserving and improving genetic resources of type and breed of animals raised in the country, as well as to increase their numbers: local Tajik Schwyz humped cattle are resistant to very hot and dry climates and to infectious blood diseases. In order to improve the quality of breeds and productivity of livestock, the following seeds were used: (a) sperm of black-and-white bulls of Holstein, Schwyz, Schwyz and Schwyz humped cattle; and (b) in sheep breeding and goat-breeding sperm of stud rams of the Guissar, Tajik, Darvoz thin wool and Tajik woolen goats. It should be noted that the number of livestock in the private sector is increasing, but that there is also a risk of the disappearance of some breeds: Kazakh white-headed, Aberdeen Angus, Kalmyk, Tajik sheep breed and of the Darvoz thin wool breeds. The Program provides for the preservation and protection of the genetic fund livestock breeds subject to animal husbandry on the national territory. To improve the quality of breeding stock and increase productivity of cattle, sheep and goats it is necessary to set up breeding and selection work at the appropriate level.
There are a number of reasons in cattle breeding that have a negative impact on further development of this sector: (a) of diminution pure bred cattle and failure of breeding practices at the appropriate level; (b) insufficient number of bull breeders, bred heifers of black-and-white, Schwyz, Kazakh, white-headed, Aberdeen Angus and Kalmyk, as well as stud rams of thin wool and Karakul breeds; (c) insufficient provision with mixed fodder; (d) import of pure bred animals and breeding material from abroad in small quantities; and (e) poor functioning of artificial insemination points. The main objective of the Program is to increase the production of meat, milk, eggs, honey, fish with the use of modern technologies, creation of new livestock farms to increase efficiency and productivity of animals, birds, fish, bees in all forms of ownership, thus ensuring provision of the population with ecologically clean foodstuffs, increase of pasture yield by 1520 of hundredweight, the creation the stock of genetic species and semen of livestock, the creation of new jobs and, in general, the production of import-substituting commodities and ensuring food security.
In the field of providing sources of animal and poultry production the following issues are to be addressed for the implementation of the Program: (a) use of selection and breeding achievements and biotechnological methods to preserve and strengthen national genetic species of herds and national animal breeds, species of fish, crosses of birds and breeds of bees; (b) due to the importance of the objectives regarding the improvement of breeds and productivity of livestock, birds, bees, must be provides support for pedigree breeding and funds for training of specialists; (c) promotion of growing turkeys, ducks, partridges and quails; (d) ensuring protection of genetic resources of fish species; and (e) organization of the processing of manufactured products and ensuring the development of market relations.