Livestock and animal husbandry situation in Bushehr province

Bushehr province has a good role in production by having more than 2.2 million fixed and moving light livestock and about 58680 cows and calves and 2620 camels. Also, regarding the broiler and egg-laying poultry units in Bushehr province, there are 88 broiler chicken units with a capacity of 2,303,000 pieces per year and an annual production of 11,000 tons of white meat, and one laying hen unit with a production capacity of 40,000 pieces and a production capacity of 450 tons of eggs per year. inactive) exists. There are also two industrial dairy cattle breeding units with a capacity of 60 heads and an annual milk production capacity of 270 tons, two industrial camel breeding units (inactive) with a capacity of 200 people. Currently, about 101 industrial breeding units and 157 rural calf breeding units with a capacity of 13,270 and 8,650 calves respectively, as well as 53 industrial and 135 rural lamb breeding units with a capacity of 16,850 and 12,390 lambs are fattened and sent to the market by these units. which finally, considering the active units, produce 4 thousand tons of red meat. The total meat production of the province in 1984 is equal to 13 thousand tons. In Bushehr province, there are between 13,000 and 14,000 rural dairy cattle units, which usually have 1 to 10 dairy cows and a number of calves. Creation of 4 dairy cow complex sites is underway. The estimated production of milk in the province is 51.42 thousand tons, equivalent to 0.75% of the country, red meat 13.333 thousand tons, equivalent to 1.7% of the country, chicken meat, 53.9 thousand tons, equivalent to 0.58% of the country, eggs, 532 tons, equivalent to 08 0.0% of the country and 172 tons of honey is equivalent to 0.56% of the country. The cultivated area of barley is 30729, alfalfa is 212 and fodder corn is 26 hectares. There are two milk collection centers. There are two milk production factories that operate with the current capacity of 2 and 20 tons per day. There is 1 semi-industrial slaughterhouse and 3 traditional slaughterhouses. There are 2 livestock breeding stations in the province, which is a research station.

The pastures of the province are 1,300,700 hectares, which cover 56.55% of the province's surface, and are considered as the main source of fodder for the province's livestock, and as a result, red meat and dairy products, and play a very valuable role in controlling soil erosion, preventing The waste of flowing water resulting from rainfall and the increase of underground water, as well as the formation of medicinal plants. The dry fodder produced in pastures, including each hectare of permitted fodder that can be harvested in good and medium pastures (420,797 hectares) 100 kilograms and poor desert pastures (1211,585 hectares) 50 kilograms, will be a total of 480,659 tons. The province has an annual income of 67 billion tomans exclusively from fodder production, and considering that the value of fodder includes only 20% of the total value of the pasture ecosystem, therefore the environmental value and preservation of the basic resources of the province's pastures is estimated to be 335 billion tomans.