The Volinian Beef or Volynska is a Ukrainian breed of beef cattle. It was created in the Volyn Oblast of Ukraine between 1974 and 1994, and in 2009 represented about 28% of the beef herd of the country.[1] It is the second cattle breed to have been developed in Ukraine; it resulted from cross-breeding of local Black-and-White and Red Polish cows with bulls of beef breeds including Aberdeen-Angus, Hereford and Limousin.[2] The development of the breed is supported by the Ukrainian government; in 2011 the Volyn regional administration made grants of over ₴7.8 million (about €70,000) to breeders.[3]
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- ^ K. J. Peters; A. Kuipers (2009), The Cattle Sector in Central and Eastern Europe: Developments and Opportunities in a Time of Transition, Wageningen Academic Pub, p. 105, ISBN 978-90-8686-104-0, retrieved 22 September 2013
- ^ "Volinian Beef/Ukraine", DAD-IS
- ^ "The Government allocated 7,809 million UAH for the development of cattle breeding in the Volyn region", voladm.gov.ua, Press-Service of Regional State Administration, archived from the original on 2013-09-27, retrieved 2013-09-23
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