There should be no farms with manual milking in the Vitebsk region - A. Kosinets

July 26, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. By 2013, there should be no farms with manual milking in the Vitebsk region. This was stated today at a meeting of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee by its chairman, Alexander Kosinets, according to a BELTA correspondent. According to Alexander Kosinets, 228 dairy farms are being reconstructed in the region this year. There are still 77 farms with manual milking, which keep 12.5 thousand cows. "We need to decide what to do with them: reconstruct them, re-profile them for calf fattening, or demolish them and build modern dairy complexes in their place. By the end of the year, we should have no farms with bucket milking," the governor said. The task for next year is to abandon the grazing period. "We drive cattle out into the fields - immediately two-thirds of the grass is trampled by hooves. It is more effective to harvest green mass and feed it through feed dispensers. And the milk yields will be different immediately," added the chairman of the regional executive committee. He emphasized that this year the region will reach 4.6 thousand kg of milk per cow in terms of milk yield, and the result in 2013 is expected to be from 5 thousand kg and above. "We must strive for this, as we need raw materials for the large cheese production plants that are being built in Postavy and Braslav," the governor concluded. -0-