On June 15, an All-Ukrainian meeting was held in Volyn to review the results of the livestock industry's work in the first half of 2005 and the prospects for its development. The delegation from 25 oblasts was led by the Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Oleksandr Baranivskyi, – reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.
At the meeting, a brief characterization of the agro-industrial complex of Volyn was given, the results of the industry's work for the first half of the year were summarized, and the main tasks for the summer months were heard. Speeches on veterinary medicine and the reproduction of agricultural animals were heard, and a program for beef production in Ukraine was presented.
Before the start of the meeting, the guests visited private breeding farms in Horokhiv, Lutsk, and Kovel districts, where they familiarized themselves with the organization of milk production, feed procurement, beef production, the restoration work of a pig complex, and the work of a private service center providing services for breeding and veterinary care of livestock, etc.
The delegation included deputy heads of the main departments of agro-industrial development of oblast state administrations, heads of veterinary medicine departments of the oblasts of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, heads of oblast breeding enterprises, heads and specialists of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, heads of organizations under the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, directors of research institutes, and scientists of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences.