State and Prospects of Meat Poultry Farming in Russia

Industrial poultry farming is a science-intensive branch of the agribusiness, which plays an important role in the nutrition of the population and is able to quickly increase the manufacture of meat products in a short time. Against the backdrop of the active development of poultry farming around the world, the level of consumption of this type of meat is also growing. The subject of the study is meat (broiler) poultry farming in the world and in Russia. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the state of the industry, measures and tools to support the development in terms of their adequacy to achieve development goals. The working conditions of poultry enterprises are changing in connection with the start of the implementation of the state subprogram titled “Creation of a domestic competitive meat cross of chickens in order to obtain broilers,” which provides for specific measures and support tools. The growing global demand for poultry meat products, the high import dependence of the Russian poultry industry and the challenges to reduce it have determined the relevance of the study. The state of the poultry meat industry in Russia, the dynamics of poultry meat production, including the contribution to global production, are analyzed. The dependence of the Russian poultry meat industry on the import of breeding material is identified. The identified measures of state support for the development of poultry farming in Russia have shown their sufficiency for solving the tasks facing the sub-sector. This study is promising for further continuation in terms of analyzing the effectiveness of the implementation of the subprogram in dynamics.