Mr Zubkov said the April 2009 meeting in Rostov-on-Don prioritised import substitution in terms of pork and poultry production by 2012, increasing the bighorn cattle population, expanding the national genetic base in terms of all animal categories, building and updating slaughterhouses and other processing facilities.
"Pork output grew by 41,000 tonnes in the first quarter of 2009. This is a good achievement," Mr Zubkov said.
The First Deputy Prime Minister said it was necessary to implement consistent measures in order to substitute pork imports with Russian pork, to establish a chain of regional genetic selection centres providing Russian livestock breeders with domestic animal-husbandry materials and to establish modern facilities making it possible to process up to 60% of Russian-made meat.
"The future annual increment in Russian-pork sales volumes must total at least 200,000 tonnes," Mr Zubkov said.
The First Deputy Prime Minister said the lack of affordable domestic animal-husbandry materials, the slow construction and commissioning of new and modernization of old pig-breeding farms, the low investment return during construction and reconstruction of pig-breeding centres, the lack of modern slaughterhouses turning out end product and pork for the meat-processing industry were the main factors hindering the industry's development.
Mr Zubkov proposed that delegates discuss these and other problems of the industry's development and voice their proposals on solving them. Such proposals will be included in the departmental pig-breeding programme, now being drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Before the meeting, Mr Zubkov visited facilities at the Znamensky genetic selection centre, Russia's largest world-class genetic centre for pig-breeding.