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CENTRE FOR IMPROVEMENT ANIMAL BREEDING

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Precision Pig Breeding - production cost 1.0 and 0.6 euro/kg lw

Precision Pig Breeding - a system where a client can contact us and immediately receive a ready-made solution - a low cost production. 

14

years of consulting in the livestock industry

40+

successful projects on optimizing technology

5-10

% deviation between planned and actual results in our business plans

3

months to implement effective technology

Precision Pig Breeding - production cost 1.0 and 0.6 euro/kg lw

Precision Pig Breeding - a system where a client can contact us and immediately receive a ready-made solution - a low cost production. 

14

years of consulting in the livestock industry

40+

successful projects on optimizing technology

5-10

% deviation between planned and actual results in our business plans

3

months to implement effective technology

Livestock Services

We work with pig farms, dairy farms, and agricultural holdings both in Ukraine and abroad. Clients turn to us for technology audits, cost reduction, work planning, business support, and improvement.

We enjoy solving complex problems that others consider hopeless and unpromising. Over the past 14 years, the Center has completed more than 40 projects involving the full adjustment of technological processes at livestock enterprises, and has helped over 20 pig farming businesses avoid bankruptcy.

In addition to veterinary and technological support, we have tackled non-standard tasks such as identifying causes of unprofitability, organizing sales and supply departments, finding financing sources and supporting investment processes, training and selecting specialists, managing enterprises under trust, and more.

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Comprehensive Services in Pig Farming

Setting up modern technology takes 3 months, after which the Center conducts monthly audits to ensure compliance with the technology.

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Comprehensive Services in Dairy        Farming

Setting up modern technology takes 3 months, after which the Center conducts monthly audits to ensure compliance with the technology.

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Implementation of Accounting and Control Systems

Entering all information about livestock and the farm, configuring daily data entry, and training staff to monitor production in real time.

Livestock Services

We work with pig farms, dairy farms, and agricultural holdings both in Ukraine and abroad. Clients turn to us for technology audits, cost reduction, work planning, business support, and improvement.

We enjoy solving complex problems that others consider hopeless and unpromising. Over the past 14 years, the Center has completed more than 40 projects involving the full adjustment of technological processes at livestock enterprises, and has helped over 20 pig farming businesses avoid bankruptcy.

In addition to veterinary and technological support, we have tackled non-standard tasks such as identifying causes of unprofitability, organizing sales and supply departments, finding financing sources and supporting investment processes, training and selecting specialists, managing enterprises under trust, and more.

svynarstvo.jpeg

Comprehensive Services in Pig Farming

Setting up modern technology takes 3 months, after which the Center conducts monthly audits to ensure compliance with the technology.

molochne_skotarstvo.jpg

Comprehensive Services in Dairy Farming

Setting up modern technology takes 3 months, after which the Center conducts monthly audits to ensure compliance with the technology.

oblik_ta_kontrol.jpg

Implementation of Accounting and Control Systems

Entering all information about livestock and the farm, configuring daily data entry, and training staff to monitor production in real time.

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Need help?

We respect our customers and our staff always communicates politely. Even accountants. If the client needs help, we'll solve his problem even if it takes a whole day.

About CIAB

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LLC “Center for Increasing Efficiency in Animal Husbandry” was founded by Mykola Babenko in 2011. The company works with pig complexes, dairy farms, and agricultural holdings in Ukraine and abroad. Clients turn to us for technology audits, cost reduction, work planning, business support, and improvement.

Our Mission

Our goal is to create the best organization for supporting and increasing the profitability of livestock businesses. To achieve this, we have gathered knowledge from leading scientific centers in countries with developed livestock industries and gained our own unique experience. Our employees use the achievements of INRA (France), NRC (USA), and EMBRAPA (Brazil) in their work. We also exchange knowledge and innovations with leading genetic, veterinary, and feed companies.

We enjoy solving complex problems that others consider hopeless or unpromising. Over 14 years, the Center has implemented 40 projects involving the complete setup of technological processes at livestock enterprises. In addition to veterinary and technological support, we have solved non-standard tasks such as identifying causes of unprofitability, organizing sales and supply departments, finding sources of financing and supporting investments, full replacement and selection of specialists, trust management of enterprises, and more.

Thanks to this, we are the only organization in Ukraine capable of implementing an efficient production technology within 3 months and turning any unprofitable enterprise into a profitable one within six months.

Key Areas of the Center’s Activity

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Technological support:

  • development of feed programs

  • monitoring and health improvement of livestock

  • automation of accounting

  • writing a business plan and monitoring its implementation

  • selection, training, and professional development of staff

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Outsourcing in livestock farming:

  • replacement of functions of a veterinarian, artificial insemination technician, and record keeper at the enterprise

  • search and support of clients for genetics, commercial pigs, and 25 kg piglets

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Veterinary support:

  • prevention and treatment of diseases

  • post-mortem examination (analysis) of internal organs

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Independent audit

Investments in Ukrainian agriculture

 

We have created two programs for accounting automation – PigCentre and MilkCentre for pig farms and dairy farms (MTF).

These are the only management programs on the market for controlling all technological processes on the farm: breeding, reproduction, selection, livestock movement, productivity, feeding, veterinary measures, and sales. Based on this data, the programs calculate the cost of animal products. The entered data forms completed reports for the veterinary service in the prescribed format.

Since 2011, we have been training students from agricultural educational institutions. We conduct internships and practical training at enterprises. Often, students get involved in projects for setting up technology and, depending on their education, work as veterinary assistants, artificial insemination technicians, or record keepers alongside experts from the Center.

At the enterprise, everyone is assigned tasks that they must complete during the internship—conducting veterinary measures according to the scheme of therapeutic and preventive work, entering data and maintaining records at the enterprise, rectal and ultrasound diagnostics, and more.

As a result, students gain practical experience at the enterprise and an understanding of technological processes as a whole, learning how to organize work effectively.

After completing the internship, we provide a certificate and a reference letter and assist them in securing a permanent position at the enterprise.

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History of LLC "Center for Improving Efficiency in Animal Husbandry"

2024

We are launching the first courses in Ukraine on ASF (African Swine Fever) vaccination prevention.

2023

Pig farming can save crop production from inevitable losses due to the blockage of grain exports.

We are signing a contract to distribute the first vaccine against ASF in Ukraine.

On 15.09.2023, we are holding the "Grain. Pigs. Meat - 2023" Forum.

We are participating in the creation of the Council of Ukrainian Pork Producers and Processors with the aim of jointly stimulating the export of Ukrainian pork.

The profitability of pig farming in 2023 exceeds 200%, and the cost of pigs in Ukraine is the lowest in the world.

2022

The most challenging year for the country and for all sectors.

Since October 2021, the import of pig genetics into Ukraine has been blocked. Pig farms did not manage to import livestock before the war, and there is no way to compensate for the capacities of the shut-down pig farms, leading to a shortage of pigs. As expected, global prices have doubled, and pork imports have become unprofitable.

The profitability of pig farming in 2022 reached 200%, and the cost of pigs in Ukraine remains the lowest in the world.

2021

The "New Pig Farming 2025" program is gaining increasing support among agricultural producers.

We are opening new nucleus farms with genetics imported from the Czech Republic.

2020

Together with the Meat Industry Association, we have developed and launched the meat industry development program – New Pig Farming 2025:

  • 20 million pigs in livestock by 2025

  • 1 million tons of pork for domestic consumption

  • 2 million tons of pork for export

  • €3 billion in export revenue

  • 88 billion UAH in added value

  • 50,000 jobs in pig farming

2019

The creation of *Precision Pig Farming™* as a comprehensive solution with a production cost of €0.50 to €0.80 per kilogram of live weight, positioning Ukrainian pig farming as a global market leader.

We have registered a public association under the same name – *Center for Improving Efficiency in Animal Husbandry*.  
The mission of the association is to promote systemic changes in animal husbandry, primarily in pig farming, to protect the interests of businesses and livestock workers, and to support students of agricultural universities at the beginning of their careers.

2018

Presentation of the new programs:

PigCentre – management of pig farms with real-time cost control  

MilkCentre – management of dairy farms with real-time cost control

2017

Eliminating the negative consequences in the operation of livestock complexes is a complex task that requires precision and professionalism. However, addressing the root causes that led to these consequences is an even greater challenge.

2016

LLC "Center for Improving Efficiency in Animal Husbandry", through the “Eurokorm” Corporation, became a co-founder of LLC “Vetmarket” – the first online supermarket for veterinary medicines.

2015

We achieved a production cost of less than €1 per kilogram of live pig weight at the enterprises we supported. This enabled our clients to operate profitably in 2015–2016 and avoid the losses that most pig farmers faced during those years.

2014

The official release of the configuration "Animal Breeding. Pig Farming" for the Ukrainian market took place. We were the first to implement accounting with this program at an industrial pig complex.

A new successful project of comprehensive changes was launched at the pig complex of LLC Ryasnyanske. Despite the crisis and the devaluation of the hryvnia, the Ryasnyanske pig complex ended 2013 and 2014 with a profit.

2013

We received the first test version in Ukraine of "Animal Breeding. Pig Farming". We began expanding the functionality of this configuration to meet the needs of managerial accounting at pig farms.

2012

We began working with the software products "Animal Breeding. Pig Farming" and "Animal Breeding. Cattle".  

We chose these programs over Western alternatives because they allowed us to immediately start adapting and improving them to meet the specific needs of Ukrainian animal husbandry.

2011

On April 7, 2011, the Center was officially registered.

The first anti-crisis management projects were launched at Dzerzhynets Agrofirm, Agroton Agroholding, and Zolotonosha Breeding Plant.

Precision pig farming

WHAT IS PRECISION PIG FARMING™

We have developed a system where a client can reach out to us and immediately receive a ready-made solution — low pork production costs.

To achieve this, we have, at various stages of our development, created businesses that meet the needs in different areas — feeding, consulting, planning, accounting, and veterinary services.

We called this system Precision Pig Farming™. It is a model for operating a successful pig complex. Its main goal is to provide the owner with a low and predictable cost of pork production.

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WHAT IS INCLUDED IN PRECISION PIG FARMING

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BUSINESS PLAN

Precise technological map + cost of produced products

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FEEDING

Growth period up to 154 days, feed cost 30 UAH per 1 kg of pork

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VETERINARY

Treatment, prevention, and biosecurity plan, cost 2–2.5 UAH per 1 kg of pork

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SUPPORT

Our specialist implements and controls all necessary changes

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ACCOUNTING

Cost tracking of weight gain by each technological group in real time

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PERSONNEL

We select and train specialists for the pig complex

BUSINESS PLAN

Our business plan is unlike traditional ones. It does not include risk assessment or market analysis.

Our business plan is a precise technological roadmap plus the cost of the produced products. It provides a week-by-week and month-by-month plan for all operations on the farm. Additionally, it includes feeding, treatment, and prevention programs.

Essentially, it is a ready-made plan for operations, procurement, and sales for the farm for each week of the planning period. It makes it easy to track changes on the farm and analyze the performance of employees.

 

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14 years of unique experience in anti-crisis projects

About CIAB

LLC “Center for Increasing Efficiency in Animal Husbandry” was founded by Mykola Babenko in 2011. The company works with pig complexes, dairy farms, and agricultural holdings in Ukraine and abroad. Clients turn to us for technology audits, cost reduction, work planning, business support, and improvement.

Our Mission

Our goal is to create the best organization for supporting and increasing the profitability of livestock businesses. To achieve this, we have gathered knowledge from leading scientific centers in countries with developed livestock industries and gained our own unique experience. Our employees use the achievements of INRA (France), NRC (USA), and EMBRAPA (Brazil) in their work. We also exchange knowledge and innovations with leading genetic, veterinary, and feed companies.

We enjoy solving complex problems that others consider hopeless or unpromising. Over 14 years, the Center has implemented 40 projects involving the complete setup of technological processes at livestock enterprises. In addition to veterinary and technological support, we have solved non-standard tasks such as identifying causes of unprofitability, organizing sales and supply departments, finding sources of financing and supporting investments, full replacement and selection of specialists, trust management of enterprises, and more.

Thanks to this, we are the only organization in Ukraine capable of implementing an efficient production technology within 3 months and turning any unprofitable enterprise into a profitable one within six months.

Key Areas of the Center’s Activity

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Technological support:

  • development of feed programs

  • monitoring and health improvement of livestock

  • automation of accounting

  • writing a business plan and monitoring its implementation

  • selection, training, and professional development of staff

mdi_people-group.png

Outsourcing in livestock farming:

  • replacement of functions of a veterinarian, artificial insemination technician, and record keeper at the enterprise

  • search and support of clients for genetics, commercial pigs, and 25 kg piglets

ph_heartbeat-fill.png

Veterinary support:

  • prevention and treatment of diseases

  • post-mortem examination (analysis) of internal organs

hugeicons_audit-02.png

Independent audit

Investments in Ukrainian agriculture

 

We have created two programs for accounting automation – PigCentre and MilkCentre for pig farms and dairy farms (MTF).

These are the only management programs on the market for controlling all technological processes on the farm: breeding, reproduction, selection, livestock movement, productivity, feeding, veterinary measures, and sales. Based on this data, the programs calculate the cost of animal products. The entered data forms completed reports for the veterinary service in the prescribed format.

Since 2011, we have been training students from agricultural educational institutions. We conduct internships and practical training at enterprises. Often, students get involved in projects for setting up technology and, depending on their education, work as veterinary assistants, artificial insemination technicians, or record keepers alongside experts from the Center.

At the enterprise, everyone is assigned tasks that they must complete during the internship—conducting veterinary measures according to the scheme of therapeutic and preventive work, entering data and maintaining records at the enterprise, rectal and ultrasound diagnostics, and more.

As a result, students gain practical experience at the enterprise and an understanding of technological processes as a whole, learning how to organize work effectively.

After completing the internship, we provide a certificate and a reference letter and assist them in securing a permanent position at the enterprise.

zvit_kerivnyka03_1x_1.png

History of LLC "Center for Improving Efficiency in Animal Husbandry"

2024

We are launching the first courses in Ukraine on ASF (African Swine Fever) vaccination prevention.

2023

Pig farming can save crop production from inevitable losses due to the blockage of grain exports.

We are signing a contract to distribute the first vaccine against ASF in Ukraine.

On 15.09.2023, we are holding the "Grain. Pigs. Meat - 2023" Forum.

We are participating in the creation of the Council of Ukrainian Pork Producers and Processors with the aim of jointly stimulating the export of Ukrainian pork.

The profitability of pig farming in 2023 exceeds 200%, and the cost of pigs in Ukraine is the lowest in the world.

2022

The most challenging year for the country and for all sectors.

Since October 2021, the import of pig genetics into Ukraine has been blocked. Pig farms did not manage to import livestock before the war, and there is no way to compensate for the capacities of the shut-down pig farms, leading to a shortage of pigs. As expected, global prices have doubled, and pork imports have become unprofitable.

The profitability of pig farming in 2022 reached 200%, and the cost of pigs in Ukraine remains the lowest in the world.

2021

The "New Pig Farming 2025" program is gaining increasing support among agricultural producers.

We are opening new nucleus farms with genetics imported from the Czech Republic.

2020

Together with the Meat Industry Association, we have developed and launched the meat industry development program – New Pig Farming 2025:

  • 20 million pigs in livestock by 2025

  • 1 million tons of pork for domestic consumption

  • 2 million tons of pork for export

  • €3 billion in export revenue

  • 88 billion UAH in added value

  • 50,000 jobs in pig farming

2019

The creation of *Precision Pig Farming™* as a comprehensive solution with a production cost of €0.50 to €0.80 per kilogram of live weight, positioning Ukrainian pig farming as a global market leader.

We have registered a public association under the same name – *Center for Improving Efficiency in Animal Husbandry*.  
The mission of the association is to promote systemic changes in animal husbandry, primarily in pig farming, to protect the interests of businesses and livestock workers, and to support students of agricultural universities at the beginning of their careers.

2018

Presentation of the new programs:

PigCentre – management of pig farms with real-time cost control  

MilkCentre – management of dairy farms with real-time cost control

2017

Eliminating the negative consequences in the operation of livestock complexes is a complex task that requires precision and professionalism. However, addressing the root causes that led to these consequences is an even greater challenge.

2016

LLC "Center for Improving Efficiency in Animal Husbandry", through the “Eurokorm” Corporation, became a co-founder of LLC “Vetmarket” – the first online supermarket for veterinary medicines.

2015

We achieved a production cost of less than €1 per kilogram of live pig weight at the enterprises we supported. This enabled our clients to operate profitably in 2015–2016 and avoid the losses that most pig farmers faced during those years.

2014

The official release of the configuration "Animal Breeding. Pig Farming" for the Ukrainian market took place. We were the first to implement accounting with this program at an industrial pig complex.

A new successful project of comprehensive changes was launched at the pig complex of LLC Ryasnyanske. Despite the crisis and the devaluation of the hryvnia, the Ryasnyanske pig complex ended 2013 and 2014 with a profit.

2013

We received the first test version in Ukraine of "Animal Breeding. Pig Farming". We began expanding the functionality of this configuration to meet the needs of managerial accounting at pig farms.

2012

We began working with the software products "Animal Breeding. Pig Farming" and "Animal Breeding. Cattle".  

We chose these programs over Western alternatives because they allowed us to immediately start adapting and improving them to meet the specific needs of Ukrainian animal husbandry.

2011

On April 7, 2011, the Center was officially registered.

The first anti-crisis management projects were launched at Dzerzhynets Agrofirm, Agroton Agroholding, and Zolotonosha Breeding Plant.

Precision pig farming

WHAT IS PRECISION PIG FARMING™

We have developed a system where a client can reach out to us and immediately receive a ready-made solution — low pork production costs.

To achieve this, we have, at various stages of our development, created businesses that meet the needs in different areas — feeding, consulting, planning, accounting, and veterinary services.

We called this system Precision Pig Farming™. It is a model for operating a successful pig complex. Its main goal is to provide the owner with a low and predictable cost of pork production.

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WHAT IS INCLUDED IN PRECISION PIG FARMING

hugeicons_plan-01.png

BUSINESS PLAN

Precise technological map + cost of produced products

flowbite_wheat-outline.png

FEEDING

Growth period up to 154 days, feed cost 30 UAH per 1 kg of pork

ph_heartbeat-fill.png

VETERINARY

Treatment, prevention, and biosecurity plan, cost 2–2.5 UAH per 1 kg of pork

bi_headset.png

SUPPORT

Our specialist implements and controls all necessary changes

solar_file-text-bold.png

ACCOUNTING

Cost tracking of weight gain by each technological group in real time

mdi_people-group.png

PERSONNEL

We select and train specialists for the pig complex

BUSINESS PLAN

Our business plan is unlike traditional ones. It does not include risk assessment or market analysis.

Our business plan is a precise technological roadmap plus the cost of the produced products. It provides a week-by-week and month-by-month plan for all operations on the farm. Additionally, it includes feeding, treatment, and prevention programs.

Essentially, it is a ready-made plan for operations, procurement, and sales for the farm for each week of the planning period. It makes it easy to track changes on the farm and analyze the performance of employees.



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14 years of unique experience in anti-crisis projects

About the Public Union CIAB

About the Civic Union “Center for Livestock Efficiency Improvement”

The Civic Union "Center for Livestock Efficiency Improvement" is an association of experts, concerned individuals, businesses, and organizations who strive to develop livestock farming in Ukraine. It promotes the ideas of transparency, accountability in public authorities and business, and highlights and solves problems in livestock production, government agencies, industry associations, agricultural education, science, and agribusiness.

The union was officially registered on August 12, 2019. As of 2025, it has over 300 members.

In 2019, the creation of the civic union with the same name as the existing LLC was driven by the need to protect the interests of the pig farming industry and its workers. At the time, the closure of hundreds of pig farms had become commonplace, and the lack of fair wages led to a mass exodus of specialists abroad. Ukraine was losing one of its most promising industries.

With the onset of war in 2022 and the blockade of grain exports, the damage caused to the country and its economy by the stagnation of pig farming and the lack of effective lobbying for its interests became evident.

 

Union Activity Areas

Livestock businesses are declining, companies are facing a severe staffing crisis, farms lack managers, veterinarians, and technologists, and graduates of agricultural institutions are unwilling to work in Ukraine.

Overexpenditures in Ukrainian livestock farming amount to billions of hryvnias. Milk and meat consumption in Ukraine is several times lower than in EU countries and 2–3 times below the physiological norm.

We understand these problems — and we know how to solve them.

 

What We Do to Fix the Situation

For over 10 years, the associated LLC has successfully worked to correct mistakes in livestock businesses. Our goal is to stimulate market competition by lowering production costs on farms. The activities of the Civic Union and the LLC in recent years include:

  • Facilitated the signing of a contract to sell ASF vaccine in Ukraine.

  • Introduced the world’s most innovative pig genetics to Ukraine.

  • Developed software for managing pig and dairy farms with real-time cost control.

  • Raised public awareness about the causes of overexpenditures in pig and dairy farming.

  • Initiated public discussions on the lack of ASF outbreak compensation for pig farms over 12 years.

  • Publicly discussed the unfair distribution of government support.

  • Highlighted corruption in industry associations.

  • Provided crisis management services to over 40 enterprises affected by technological violations and fraud.

The Civic Union "Center for Livestock Efficiency Improvement" advocates for the interests of the pig farming business, livestock workers, and students of agricultural institutions.

 

Join the Civic Union “Center for Livestock Efficiency Improvement

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Contacts

We are located in Vyshhorod, near Kyiv. Our accounting department, managers, and training courses are based here.

Our technical support works nearly 24/7 and responds to inquiries wherever it's most convenient for the client — by phone, email, social media, or messengers.

If you have questions, want to order a service, or request a specialist visit to your enterprise, feel free to contact us in any convenient way — or visit us at our office.

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Address
Kyiv region, Vyshhorod, 6 Mezhyhirskoho Spasu St.

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Working hours
Mon – Fri: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

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