Assessment of district potential of dairy agricultural consumer cooperation of personal subsidiary plots in Rostov region

Issue № 6, 2020, article № 4, pages 32-40

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОЦЕНКА РАЙОННОГО ПОТЕНЦИАЛА МОЛОЧНОЙ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОЙ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКОЙ КООПЕРАЦИИ ЛПХ РОСТОВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

Keywords: AGRICULTURAL CONSUMER COOPERATION, COOPERATION POTENTIAL, DAIRY PRODUCTION, ROSTOV REGION, SUBSIDIARY HOUSEHOLD PLOTS

Abstract: The article based on micro data of the All-Russian Agricultural Census 2016 identified the potential for the development of dairy agricultural consumer cooperatives of small forms of farming for each district of the Rostov Region with further aggregation of regions by groups of potential - very high, high, medium and relatively low. The paper provides the characteristics of these groups by the number of cows, land, material and technical resources, milk production volumes. The potential was determined on the basis of the share of commodity production of subsidiary household plots of the district from the volume of milk in farms of all categories of the region and by the share of commodity production of milk in subsidiary household plots from the total production of marketable milk in the district. The selected indicators made it possible to take into account both the scale of production of commercial milk in private household plots and the importance of private household plots in dairy production of the district. On the whole, out of 43 districts of the Rostov Region, 16 districts are assigned to regions with a very high and high potential for milk cooperation, 16 to medium and 11 to regions with a relatively low potential for milk cooperation. A comparison of the districts distributed among the groups of potential of dairy cooperation with the actual presence of processing and procuring dairy cooperatives revealed an insufficient implementation of the existing potential of cooperation in the region. In many districts of the Rostov region production of marketed milk in the small commodity sector is much higher than the volume sold through the cooperatives. The districts of the central and northern parts of the Rostov Region have significant potential, where there are currently no dairy cooperatives, although the volumes of marketed milk there are high. Dairy cooperatives of the region are located not only in areas with high potential for cooperation, but also close to the regional centre.

Authors: Gataulina Ekaterina Aleksandrovna, Potapova Aleksandra Andreevna