Towards sustainable development and food security via mixed fodder production

Abstract

. One of the main strategic tasks facing the industry is to ensure the competitiveness of domestic agricultural products, which can be achieved only based on the development of highly effective innovations in producing mixed fodder. At present in the country, the mixed fodder industry is developing in two directions: the first one includes - capacity building of large enterprises, which fully provide industrial poultry farming and animal breeding with mixed fodder (poultry farms, large livestock complexes for the production of pork, beef and milk), breeding livestock and fish farming, as well as produce and supply agriculture with protein and vitamin supplements (PVS) and premixes. The second includes the production of mixed fodders and fodder mixtures for cattle and pigs in agricultural fodder shops and factories using their raw materials, mineral supplements, and premixes of the industrial output. There are three main groups of production relations: socio-economic, organizational-economic and technological, characterized by both the way of appropriation and the way of organization of agro-industrial production as a whole, hence the whole range inherent in the agro-industrial complex. Organizational-economic relations are the central link in the overall system of production relations since they are formed and function not within but at the junction of production relations and productive forces. Organizational and economic relations are most susceptible to changes in the technical and economic basis of agro-industrial production and the forms of its organization. They have to be shaped to facilitate innovative transition towards sustainable development and food security via strengthening the mixed fodder production industry.