Azerbaijan sets 2030 targets for milk and beef output
Azerbaijan says it wants milk output to rise by 11 percent and beef output by 21 percent by 2030 under a wider farm development program that also includes new farms, collection points and pasture restoration.
Azerbaijan plans to increase milk production by 11 percent and beef production by 21 percent by 2030, Deputy Agriculture Minister Ilhama Gadimova said on June 12. She presented the targets in Ismayilli at a regional meeting on the Mountainous Shirvan economic region linked to the state program for the development of agricultural, fisheries and aquaculture production and processing for 2026-2030.
Gadimova said the state program includes new support mechanisms for intensive horticulture, dairy farming and beef cattle breeding. The package provides initial investment support for establishing intensive orchards, advances part of agrotechnical maintenance subsidies and introduces certification support for obtaining GlobalG.A.P. and organic certificates.
For the livestock sector itself, the authorities plan to create dairy and meat clusters, establish about 1,000 new farms of different capacities and expand the supply of pedigree animals. The program also includes 90 milk collection points, 15 skin collection points and full identification of cattle, which indicates an attempt to pair output growth with traceability and collection infrastructure.
The sheep sector is also part of the plan. Azerbaijan intends to create 300 new semi-intensive sheep farms, build 10 wool collection points and one wool processing enterprise, and support the restoration of 480,000 hectares of pasture and grazing land. Those measures are meant to strengthen the feed base and commercial organization of the sector.
Taken together, the targets suggest that Baku is trying to use infrastructure, breeding support, certification and land restoration as parallel tools for livestock expansion. If implemented as announced, the program would broaden production capacity in milk and beef while also extending the supporting network needed to collect, identify and process animal products more efficiently.