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Central Asia countries to impose a slaughter ban 09 Sep 2009

The governments of several CIS countries (former Soviet states) are planning to impose a temporary ban on livestock slaughter, Russian media reports.
By Evegen Vorotnikov
 
According to unofficial sources this will help to stop the decline of livestock numbers in these regions. However, most analysts believe that this measure will negatively affect the investment attractiveness of the CIS region, and can stop those investors which are willing to invest in former Soviet countries.
 
For the last five years the beef stock farming in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and some other countries of Central Asia became unprofitable, and many local farms have begun to reduce the numbers of livestock.
 
According to local authorities only administrative measures can help to stop the decline of livestock in the region. Thus they have already promised to impose a ban on the issuance of documents required for livestock slaughter. It is assumed that after the ban, farmers will no longer slaughter, resulting in a shortage of raw materials for processing enterprises which will be forced to raise the purchase prices for meat.

 
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