Medvedev wants to limit the number of livestock and birds in personal farms

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev to work out the issue of introducing restrictions on the number of livestock and poultry in personal subsidiary farms (LPH). This was reported on the White House website.

The assignment was given following the results of a selector meeting on the progress of the harvesting work, which Medvedev carried out on August 3 in Sochi. Tkachev should work out the issue together with the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Finance, as well as the administrations of the regions. Medvedev demands to submit offers by September 23.

The reasons why the premiere was interested in such a measure are not specified.

According to RBC, for the first time the possibility of limiting the livestock of livestock and birds in LPH was considered in 2009. Then the Legislative Assembly of the Stavropol Territory introduced a bill to the State Duma, which provides for the right of regional authorities at their own discretion to limit the number of animals in the subsidiary farms of citizens. It was explained that some owners of livestock have too many, which creates their neighbors of the problem, including a sanitary nature. The law, however, was not adopted.

In January of this year, the governor of the same Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov expressed a similar idea. He motivated her, however, otherwise. As Yuga.ru reported , the official complained that "there are many examples of how, under the guise of personal subsidiary plots, actually commercial enterprises with herds of thousands of heads work," and "the main result of their activities is zero rubles in the budget and conflicts that arise in the field due to the lack of pastures or damage to foreign fields." Vladimirov noted that since 1990, private owners in the Stavropol Territory has grown from 0.9 million to 1.9 million heads and the main growth occurred in LPH.