By Smbat Grigoryan

YEREVAN. – According to the agricultural census results that were recently publicized, farm animals and domestic birds are kept in 181,500 farms of individuals in Armenia. Thus, a little more than half of individuals that are engaged in agriculture in the country have domestic livestock and poultry.

Nonetheless, livestock farming productivity is not in a very good condition in Armenia. The respective domestic production completely—or virtually completely—secures the country’s demands solely with respect to sporadic types of products; the rest are imported. 

The matter is that natural, rather than commodity farms, are more typical of Armenia’s domestic livestock farming.

A considerable part of the country’s livestock farmers limit themselves to only a small number of cattle, and due to forage and feed problems as well as animal diseases.