Methodological foundations of Cattle Breeding Development in the context of food security of the Russian Federation.

Abstract

The aim of the study is to provide scientific substantiation of the cattle breeding development and to prepare practical recommendations for improving the level of satisfying the public demand for milk and beef. In the course of the study, the hypothesis was put forward on the need for optimization the location of cattle breeding in the country. The study is based on the zonal grouping of subjects of the Russian Federation, depending on the availability of fodder-producing areas, their evaluating productivity; solving the problem of optimization, the distribution of cattle stock with the help of economic-mathematical modeling methods, and the development of multivariate forecasts for the production of meat and milk products, based on the leveling of temporarily time-series of livestock yield.