The EAEU introduces a new assessment of tested breeding achievements in livestock breeding
The document provides for the use within the EAEU of a unified methodology for assessing tested new breeding achievements for distinctiveness, uniformity, stability and disease resistance. This applies to large and small cattle, pigs, horses, camels, deer, poultry, fur-bearing animals, fish, and bees.
The document was prepared taking into account the species characteristics and areas of productivity of farm animals. It contains algorithms for determining (calculating) indicators, descriptions (including illustrations) and methods for measuring, determining, and studying traits taken into account when assessing the homogeneity, distinctiveness, stability and resistance to diseases of breeding achievements in livestock breeding.
“The changes made will allow us to complete the formation of the legal basis for testing, unify the work on approving the selection achievements being created in livestock breeding and will ensure their recognition within the EAEU. This, in turn, will contribute to the growth of the genetic potential of animals, increasing the volume of production of competitive breeding products, reducing dependence on imports and increasing the volume of mutual supplies,” noted EEC Minister of Industry and Agro-Industrial Complex Artak Kamalyan.
At the meeting of the Board, the recommendation “On unified approaches to recording milk productivity and conducting laboratory control of the quality of milk from cattle in the dairy direction of productivity” was also adopted.
The document, prepared taking into account the experience of the Union states and the recommendations of the International Committee for Animal Records (ICAR), is aimed at increasing the reliability of the processes for assessing the milk productivity of cattle.
“The implementation of the provisions of the recommendation will contribute to the creation in the Member States of a system of objective, independent selection accounting, a procedure for the functioning of assistant services, whose competence includes the issues of conducting and monitoring the accounting of dairy productivity of breeding stock, on the basis of internationally recognized principles,” the EEC noted.
