Marcus Bates, Director of UK TAG visited Kazakhstan to hold talks on developing relations between 🇰🇿 and 🇬🇧 in the agricultural sector.
During the visit, he met with the Director of the Republican Center for Breeding in Livestock “Asyl Tulik” and visited their storage facility with a gene pool of 6.5 million doses of cattle and small cattle material.
He also met with the technologist of the Volynsky Agricultural Complex.zaak
Along with members of the pig industry in Kazakhstan and took part in a pig breeding webinar organised by the British Embassy in Astana. It is pleasing to report that the UK now has an Export Health Certificate (EHC) in place for boar semen
Pictured with Marcus is Sergei Dmitriev of the Volynska pig farm – Sergei is interested in British genetics for his 2,300 sow breeding farm and we hope to organise a breeding programme for him in the new year.
A visit was also organised to the genebank at the National Breeding Centre in Asyl Tulk where Director Bolat Seisenov has breeding programmes for Hampshire and Suffolk sheep – with a future interest in Texels. No new genetics have been added for 5 years so there is a great potential there for UK genetics. The Kazakh genebank has some 2 million doses of semen from 22 breeds of cattle and 17 breeds of sheep
