A married couple from the Ternopil region is breeding valuable astrakhan sheep.

Yuri and Lyubov Zakharchuki from the small village of Shmankovtsy in the Chortkovsky district are engaged in the cultivation of unusual astrakhan sheep. Together with his wife, Yuri acquired the property of the former collective farm - the stable, which was in complete disrepair. Entrepreneurs made repairs in it: they reconstructed, insulated, ennobled the territory.

Now under the roof of the reconstructed building live 40 goats, 2 cows, 150 sheep, 2 donkeys and poultry.

Yuri purchased the first lambs from the Hutsuls in 1983. They entered the industrial production volumes in the 90s. For shares bought an abandoned and dilapidated stable, 17 hectares of land and updated the sheep herd. To bring the breeding sheep, I had to go to Askania-Nova. Now, farms of Astrakhan breed are grown on the farm, there is a demand for both wool and lamb itself, Yuri Zakharchuk said. Yuri Zakharchuk learned from the sheep farmers in Bukovina how to make feta cheese.

Entrepreneurs sell meat to restaurants and students in Arab countries. Brynza sells well in Chernivtsi, Lviv, Ternopol, Chortkiv and other regional centers of the region. In the evening, craftsmen from Ivano-Frankivsk region buy wool for making bedspreads, sweaters, mittens and socks.