METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO DETERMINING THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF THE USE OF NATURAL FODDER LANDS

Issue № 11, 2017, article № 4, pages 40-51

Section: Economic mechanism of managing

Language: Russian

Original language title: МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ПОДХОДЫ К ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЮ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ЕСТЕСТВЕННЫХ КОРМОВЫХ УГОДИЙ

Keywords: FODDER PRODUCTION, ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY, INTENSIFICATION, IMPROVEMENT OF FEED QUALITY, USE OF NATURAL HAYFIELDS AND PASTURES, ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC MECHANISM

Abstract: The article deals with the role, importance and problems of increasing the economic efficiency of the use of natural hayfields and pastures of the Central Non-Black Soil Zone of the Russian Federation in the reproduction of the forage base on the basis of factors determining the productivity of the land, the nutritional value of the products (feeds) obtained, and the minimum labor and fund expenses on its unit in modern conditions. The grassland economy acts as a strategic direction for its intensification and more economical development of dairy-beef cattle breeding. The central Non-Black Soil Zone of Russia has necessary economic potential for the solution of the mentioned task. At the same time, the current state of the grassland economy is such that it does not provide animals in sufficient quantities with quality roughages, succulents and pasture (green) fodders. The main reasons for this situation are: insufficient material and technical, labor and financial providing unsatisfactory orientation of the use of natural hayfields and pastures, land reclamation disorder, radioactive contamination as a result of the man-made disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. The importance of scientific, technical and technological support, innovative and organization-economy and other factors in solving the fodder problem has been shown. The methodological and methodical approaches to the analysis of the efficiency have been clarified taking into account specificity of the forage base development on the natural lands. The issues of developing the integrated programs for the development of feed production, including grassland economy, creating of dairy and fodder clusters and rational organization economy mechanism for managing the production system and use of feeds have been considered.

Authors: CHirkov Evgenii Pavlovich, KHramchenkova Alevtina Orestovna, Babiak Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Laretin Nikolai Alekseevich