THE CURRENT STATE IMPORT DEPENDENCE AND COMPETITIVENESS IMPORT OF LIVESTOCK BREEDING

Issue № 8, 2016, article № 9, pages 47-53

Section: Agrofood market

Language: Russian

Original language title: СОВРЕМЕННОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ ИМПОРТОЗАВИСИМОСТИ И КОНКУРЕНТОСПОСОБНОСТИ ПЛЕМЕННОГО ЖИВОТНОВОДСТВА

Keywords: LIVESTOCK BREEDING, GENETIC RESOURCES, IMPORT DEPENDENCE, COMPETITIVENESS, STATE SUPPORT

Abstract: The implementation of the program of import substitution and ensuring the development of a competitive domestic animal breeding requires the creation of a stable base. Livestock breeding process should provide intensification industry, improving its economic efficiency and resistance to external unfavourable macroeconomic factors. Although provided in recent years, substantial state support livestock breeding, industry is highly dependent on imports of genetic resources from foreign breeding centres. For the last years the steady tendency of delivery of import genetic resources is noted. High import dependence and low competitiveness of industry breeding base provides the technological gap of domestic livestock. Ensuring food security and increasing the volume of livestock production requires the implementation of a set of measures to intensify the selection and breeding work, increasing production volumes breeding production in the country and ensuring competitive agricultural enterprises genetic resources. As part of the study the current state and the value of livestock breeding to ensure the country's food security was analyzed. The level of state support for livestock breeding and established industry dependence on imports of genetic resources is determined. The proposed ways to improve the efficiency of breeding work and the competitiveness of domestic livestock breeding based on the analysis have been offered. Creation of steady breeding base and effective use of genetic resources is a strategic task of the branch allowing reducing technological dependence of animal husbandry on import, to minimize risk of delivery of infectious diseases on the territory of the country, to increase competitiveness and availability of the made production to the population of the country.

Authors: Tikhomirov Aleksei Ivanovich