TRENDS AND FACTORS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF DAIRY FARMING IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF AGRICULTURE
DOI 10.33305/241-85
Issue № 1, 2024, article № 9, pages 85-94
Section: Agro-industrial market
Language: Russian
Original language title: ТЕНДЕНЦИИ И, ФАКТОРЫ УСТОЙЧИВОГО РАЗВИТИЯ МОЛОЧНОГО ЖИВОТНОВОДСТВА В УСЛОВИЯХ ЦИФРОВОЙ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА
Keywords: DAIRY FARMING, INDUSTRY STRUCTURE, PRODUCER TYPES, SCALE EFFECT, ADAPTIVE PRODUCTION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Abstract: The article analyzes the trends in the development of dairy farming in the Russian Federation and the North-West Federal District from 2005 to 2022. The analysis of changes in the structure of milk production in the context of producer types is carried out. The increased differentiation of dairy farming development between milk producer types in the Russian Federation and the North-West Federal District has been revealed. Priority state support for large investment projects in dairy farming has accelerated the development of innovative technologies, growth of dairy productivity, and gross milk production. Milk producers in the regions of the North-West Federal District, the Non-black earth region of Russia as a whole, face the problem of meeting the requirements of an increased effective scale. The cessation of milk production by family farms, household plots small and medium-sized enterprises leads to milk production localization of, dairy farming fragmentation in the regions, strengthening of territorial differentiation of agriculture development as a whole. The complex development of digital technologies, the digital transformation of agriculture has an additional impact on increasing the effect of mass production, strengthens the process of concentration in dairy farming. At the same time, digital transformation creates potential opportunities for the development of farms with medium and small size of milk production based on the maximum adaptation of production scale to local agro-climatic and production-economic conditions. The implementation of local competitive and comparative advantages is able to ensure the competitiveness of milk production with a smaller scale of production in regions with limited rental potential, regions of "risky farming". The relevance for the formation of a targeted organizational mechanism for dairy farming digital transformation to overcome effect derived from path-dependence, the wide integrated development of digital technologies by small and medium-sized milk producers is increasing.
Authors: Surovtsev Vladimir Nikolaevich