SHEEP BREEDS RAISED IN SIBERIA AND SHEEP BREEDING INFRASTRUCTURE
The comparative analysis of raising sheep breeds of different production direction in the Siberian agricultural organizations and of sheep breeding infrastructure was made; the situation over the period from 2000 to 2013 years was studied. There are 13 sheep breeds raised at the agricultural enterprises of Siberia; of those 5 breeds are fine-wool ones, their population amounted to 255.1 thousand as of the end of 2013; 3 semi-fine wool breeds (94.0 thousand sheep); 2 semi-coarse wool breeds (35.5 thousand sheep) and 3 coarse wool breeds (312.2 thousand sheep). The largest in terms of the population are the following breeds: Zabaikalskaya (235.9 thousand sheep), Gornoaltayskaya (82.7 thousand sheep) and Tuva Short Fat-Tailed Sheep (262.1 thousand sheep). The Siberian sheep breeding infrastructure is represented by 45 breeding organizations which raised 307.3 thousands sheep, including 15 breeding factories (plemennoy zavod) (114.4 thousand sheep), 29 nucleus breeding centers (plemennoy reproduktor) (188.5 thousand sheep) and 1 gene pool farm (genofondnoye khozyaystvo) (4.4 thousand sheep). There were 17 breeding farms (122.6 thousand sheep) raising fine-wool sheep breeds, including 9 breeding factories (59.8 thousand sheep); 6 nucleus breeding centers (29.8 thousand sheep) raising semi-fine wool sheep breeds; 4 breeding organizations (25.4 thousand sheep) raising semi-coarse wool sheep breeds, including 2 breeding factories (17.6 thousand sheep); and 18 breeding organizations (129.5 thousand sheep), including 4 breeding factories (37.0 thousand sheep) raising coarse-wool sheep breeds.