Aktobe Region prepares more than 2.4 million tonnes of livestock feed

More than 1,400 tractors took part in the campaign, and 35,000 households have hay stocks for winter.

Aktobe Region prepared 2,418,500 tonnes of feed for winter. More than 35,000 households are fully supplied with hay stocks.

Author: Робот Source: Akimat of Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan

A tractor and baler working in a field during the feed harvest — Farm machinery harvests winter feed in Aktobe Region. Illustrative photo. Photo: Kapa65 / Pixabay, Pixabay Content License

Aktobe Region has fulfilled its plan to prepare feed for winter. Favorable haymaking conditions this year enabled farms to build up the required reserves.

According to the regional agriculture department, the region has more than 628,000 cattle, 1.2 million sheep and goats, over 417,000 horses and 26,000 camels.

A total of 2,418,500 tonnes of feed was prepared, including hay, haylage, silage, concentrated feed and straw. Hay accounted for more than 2 million tonnes, concentrated feed for over 225,000 tonnes, and straw for 110,000 tonnes. The remainder was haylage and silage.

More than 1,400 tractors, over 1,300 mowers and more than 1,000 balers were used in the campaign. Since the start of the year, agricultural enterprises have bought 466 new pieces of feed-harvesting equipment worth 3.7 billion tenge in total.

The regional budget allocated 4.2 billion tenge this year to subsidize livestock farming. Farms also received more than 615 tonnes of discounted diesel fuel for feed harvesting, priced at 275 tenge per litre.

More than 35,000 households across the region are now fully stocked with hay for winter.

Translated from Russian using artificial intelligence. Source: Akimat of Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan